Growing Flowers 105 



Outdoor pansy beds should be covered for the winter 

 with a mulch of dry leaves and over that stable 

 manure. The plants will come up in the spring 

 and bloom until midsummer, and if properly cared 

 for, until the end of the summer. 



Pansies for midsummer blooming will do better 

 if they receive the sun only a couple of hours in the 

 morning. Too much heat will rause small, puny 

 flowers. Seed sown in June will produce plants 

 that will flower in the fall. 



Pansies should not be allowed to go to seed. If 

 they do, the succeeding blossoms will be small in 

 size and faded in color, and the plants will soon 

 stop blooming. 



Take a few pansy plants indoors for the winter. 

 Given attention, i. e., warmth, watering, and cul- 

 tivation, they will keep right on blooming until 

 Christmas time and sometimes even longer. 



Peonies 



When peonies are crowding out other plants, as 

 they so frequently do, they should be trimmed by 

 cutting off some of the outer branches and then 

 tying the stalks together. In the middle of the 



