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as soon as the blossoms dare to show their faces, you 

 may prevent their reappearance; all the other va- 

 rieties are exquisite and remind one of the quaint, 

 dainty old dresses of our grandmother found in gar- 

 ret fcfunks. 1 



Each year we let some part of our vegetable gar- 

 den enjoy a rest cure, and sow it in clover which is 

 plowed under in the fall, making that portion of the 

 garden particularly rich the following season. With 

 the clover we once sowed all our superfluous phlox 

 seed, making a wonderfully pretty field. Another 

 year we combined the clover seed with Shirley pop- 

 pies — the result was wonderful. 



When the early strawberries are through, give 

 them a deep spading between rows, then sow gay 

 little phlox to take the place of weeds which other- 

 wise are sure to come ; the strawberries will be grate- 

 ful for the shade of the phlox, and the phlox will 

 add to your happiness every day of vegetable-pick- 

 ing during the summer. 



Yellow Flowers 

 Before our grapevines had attained sufficient 

 size to require a trellis, we utilized a stretch of about 

 ten feet in width between the twenty vines to make a 



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