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flowers are scarce, and looks well with the anemones, 

 which hear it company in the fall garden. It usually 

 comes up along the edges of the path, and I transplant 

 it where I wish it to hloom, but last spring I treated 

 all garden paths with herbicide, so shall miss my usual 

 fall offering of nicotianas. 



The evening flowering stock, matthiola, is of little 

 value except for its fragrance, but should be planted 

 in conjunction with other evening bloomers. 



Plant the moonflower to cover the seat or arbor; 

 this will give an abundance of lovely white flowers at 

 night and on cloudy days. Plant either the hardy or 

 the annual form. If the latter, soak the seed in warm 

 water for some hours before planting. 



These little bits of special gardening add much to 

 the interest of plant culture and will frequently make 

 available an otherwise waste bit of land. 



Another good use to which an unoccupied comer 

 may be put is to devote it to the starting of plants of 

 hardy perennials, shrubs or trees from seed. A quite 

 small piece of ground planted to seeds of hardy peren- 

 nials in August or early September will furnish 

 enough plants for an entire hardy garden, and the 

 plants thus started will be ready for transplanting 

 into permanent quarters at the time the seed would 

 be going into the ground in spring, and will bloom the 

 same year. Thus one saves a year in time. Many 

 kinds of ornamental shrubs and trees may be grown 



