AUTUMN FLOWER-PLANTING 37 



have looked upon all gardening as a pursuit to 

 be divided between themselves ; why the raising 

 of vegetables should have been considered a 

 manly occupation or recreation and the grow- 

 ing of flowers not; but so it seems to have 

 been until comparatively a few years ago. 

 Now, fortunately, the joys of gardening 

 are shared alike by master and mistress, 

 the children, the young and the old, and a 

 statesman may wax enthusiastic over his gar- 

 den of rare Pinks or a milliner over her bed 

 of asparagus without any one's criticizing the 

 choice of either in garden planting. 



Nowadays, we do not confine our efforts to 

 Springtime visits to the grocery store for a 

 package of Petunia seed, a parcel of Sweet 

 Peas, or an envelope of Candytuft, content to 

 sprinkle it over a little dirt in a bed that occu- 

 pies a corner of the "yard," sighing the while 

 that we cannot seem to raise the good old flow- 

 ers to the state of perfection they reached in 

 the old-time gardens of ante-bellum days, or 

 of Colonial heritage; instead we are happy to 

 have discovered the difference between those 

 flowers which have to be planted every year 

 ■ — the Annuals — and those others — ^the Pereij- 



