No other flower can so disguise its connection with 

 earth. The coreopsis stems are so fragile and incon- 

 spicuous that the flowers are constellations suspended 

 in space. The wine-red variety cannot be surpassed 

 for velvety richness. Once given the freedom of 

 your garden, you need never bother your head again 

 about the coreopsis, but permit them to spring up 

 where they will, making gold frames for all your 

 flower pictures. 



Sweet Peas 



Because of the wire netting almost universally 

 used for sweet peas, it is wise to make very sure of the 

 spot whereon you desire them to abide before putting 

 up their permanent supports ; for if anything can 

 disrupt a family's peace and love it is trying to re- 

 move a stretch of chicken wire which has been 

 tightly nailed to posts. 



If the spot is heavily enriched each year to replace 

 the drain on the earth's strength, sweet peas really 

 do better where they have once grown than in entirely 

 new ground. No doubt there is some scientific rea- 

 son for this, but I'm not a scientist — only an ob- 

 server and recorder. 



We make the trench very deep so that when the 



