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Such an arrangement well fits them for successfully 

 enduring drouths and periods of neglect. Good care 

 must of necessity be given the first summer to in- 

 sure the proper development of a feeding system. 

 Most of these plants will grow where any plant will. 

 Good garden soil, warm and light, rather than cold 

 and heavy, is preferable. They do not do well in 

 wet undrained soil. Fine manure, carefully forked 

 in each spring, pays in better plants and more 

 flowers. 



There is no part of a garden where so much in 

 the way of good flowers may be cut without in any 

 manner marring the general effect, for it is neces- 

 sary in order to keep up the floral supply that the 

 plants be freely cut away in the flower-bearing 

 spikes. Some lovely effects may be obtained by a 

 judicious arrangement of them either on a large or 

 small scale. An ideal position for such borders is 

 where the background of a hedge or fence is ob- 

 tainable ; in front of this in beds of suitable breadth 

 and length with preferably irregular outline on the 

 outer margin arrange the various plants, grouping 

 the taller specimens in the background and the 

 dwarf er sorts in the front. 



OLD FASHIONED FLOWERS 



They ain't no style about 'em, 



And they're sort of pale and faded; 



Yet the doorway here, without 'em, 



Would be lonesomer, and shaded 



With a good deal blacker shadder 



Than the mornin'-glory makes, 



And the sunshine would look sadder, 



For their good old-fashioned sakes. Riley. 



If more of these old-fashioned perennials were 

 used we would hear far less about having "no flow- 



