IN CALIFORNIA 195 



NOVEMBER 



Village improvement societies are now on the alert 

 regarding time, material and manner of planting 

 school grounds, public squares, parks and streets. 

 Now is a good time for all preliminary work, for soil 

 is easily worked. Even municipalities, as well as 

 lesser communities, evince unusual activity just at 

 this season, for it seems that with the coming of the 

 rains all the earth must be gay made spick and 

 span the natural season for festivity in California. 



SEED SOWING 



The following seeds should be sown now for a 

 good crop of spring flowers; antirrhinum or snap- 

 dragon, clarkia, candytuft, eschscholtzia, or Califor- 

 nia poppy, Shirley poppy, and poppies in variety ; ten 

 weeks stock, larkspur, leptosyne, Gypsophila elegans, 

 pansy, saponaria, lychnis or viscaria, Virginia stock, 

 centaurea imperialis, C. Emperor William, calen- 

 dula or pot marigold, Prince of Orange and Meteor. 



It is a very good time to sow sweet peas now. It 

 brings them into bloom just when they produce the 

 largest and best flowers. It will pay to spade up the 

 ground just as deeply as possible, even to two feet. 

 Dig in a liberal supply of well-rotted manure, and 

 work the soil over until in a friable condition before 

 sowing. This gives not only a good depth of soil, but 

 that good drainage which is so necessary to the suc- 

 cessful growth of first class sweet peas. Keep them 

 free from weeds and the surface well loosened at all 

 times. 



BULBS 



At no other season of the year may so many bulbs 

 be planted with both pleasure and profit as the few 

 weeks from now until New Year's Day. This is 



