VI 



AUTUMN FLOWER-PLANTING 



HAPPILY the time is passed when 

 the American home garden-maker 

 simply looked upon the patch of 

 ground at his disposal as being merely a bit of 

 practice acreage in which, as fancy dictated, 

 he might plant here and there a few seeds of 

 flowers or of vegetables in haphazard confu- 

 sion or skimpy orderliness, feeling that the 

 whole matter was one of experiment, and that 

 failure on the part of the seeds to produce what 

 was expected of them, or even to come up at 

 all, was not attended with any disappointments 

 of serious consequence. That was the time when 

 the man of the house attended to the buying 

 of vegetable seeds, leaving to the housewife all 

 things connected with the seeding of the flower 

 garden. I do not know why it is that our 

 grandfathers and our grandmothers should 



