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annual nasturtiums, phlox, and the like can be made 

 to thrive and to be a pleasure to the one who cultivates 

 them. 



The following rules for the selection of plants have 

 been drawn from long experience. A very sunny expos- 

 ure can be modified by preparing a screen of cheesecloth 

 or paper to shelter the plants during the hottest hours of 

 the day. The west wall suffers more than the east or 

 the south wall from the heat of the afternoon sun. The 

 morning hours are cooler, tempering the rays of the sun 

 before midday, and the light on south walls is continu- 

 ally changing. The north wall, gray, cool, and often 

 damp, must be accepted as it is, but as previously stated 

 there are plants of a delicate nature which thrive best 

 under these conditions. Among these it is possible to em- 

 phasize the ferns and begonias, fuchsias and impatiens. 



Under average conditions, for the flower box on a 

 shaded exposure select scarlet and white geraniums, of 

 which there is a good variety, rose geraniums, pelar- 

 goniums or Lady Washingtons, begonias (coral and 

 white), feverfew, marguerites, spirea (white), lobelia 

 (blue), petunias (purple and white), impatiens (rose), 

 verbenas (many colors), and ivy geraniums and ageratum 

 (blue). 



For a sunny exposure, either south, east, or west, choose 

 any of the above and to them add the sun-loving helio- 

 trope, the single petunias, periwinkles, and coleus, a 



