CHAPTER XXI 



HARDY FLOWERS THAT DO NOT DISAPPOINT 



Plants that are easily grown ought to figure largely in the 

 home garden 



A SUCCESSION of failures is calculated to depress and 

 disconcert the most optimistic of amateurs, so it is as 

 well perhaps to know of those plants that return the 

 grower a sure and satisfactory reward for his labours. 

 There are some that one simply cannot fail to grow, 

 and these ought certainly to figure largely in the home 

 garden. All the care they demand is that planting shall 

 be done in late October or November, in soil that has been 

 dug 18 inches deep. It is just as well to place them 

 quite 2, feet apart (or they will soon be righting each 

 other for space), and to mix two or three spadefuls of 

 rotted manure or a handful of bone-meal with the soil 

 as the digging proceeds. 



Foremost among them is the hardy Marguerite or 

 summer Chrysanthemum or Shasta Daisy, as Chrysan- 

 themum maximum is variously called. This hardy 

 plant, growing 2j feet high, bears a profusion of large, 

 white, gold-centred Daisy-like blooms in July and 

 August. There are several varieties, differing chiefly in 



