202 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



and Achilles, Bachelors' Buttons, Globe 

 Amaranth, Lavatera will be claiming the 

 month as their own, sharing it with Balsam, 

 Bellflower, Candytuft, Coreopsis, Digitala, 

 Evening Primrose, Larkspur, Love-lies-bleed- 

 ing, Morning-Glory, the Nasturtium, Phlox 

 and many other old-time favorites, not the least 

 of which is the Petunia, a lovely flower again 

 in fashion. The proficient garden-lover will 

 look around his garden for those blossoming 

 plants that are producing the loveliest flowers 

 and wiU lose no time in marking them so their 

 seed may be secured later when the pods ripen. 

 All one's seeds will not be home-grown, of 

 course, but there is great pleasure and satis- 

 faction to be found in being able to say, "This 

 lovely flower has sprung from seed of another 

 which I myself planted in my garden." If 

 the flower garden is expected to attain its fuU 

 beauty, the soil from which the plants sprung 

 must be prevented from becoming hard, flat 

 and sunbaked. Flowers as well as vegetables 

 need to have the soil from which they spring 

 constantly cultivated and properly stirred up. 

 As to the vegetable garden, July will find 

 one busy there. The garden-maker will be 



