CHAPTER TEN 
AMONG THE FLOWERS 
Tuere is no possible floral display like an orchard 
of apples, pears, plums, and cherries — and peaches 
if you can grow them. Yet it is an easy matter in 
the country to have a shrubbery and a flower gar- 
den. I say easy because you must not lay out for 
so much work and care that you will get weary of 
your best things. Fifty years ago vegetable gar- 
dens were worked with a spade, and flower gar- 
dens our mothers dug with a knife — digging forks 
and trowels were unknown. Sunflowers, nastur- 
tiums and hollyhocks grew in the vegetable gar- 
den, but the pinks, cinnamon roses, and annuals 
came with the most terrible backache. I shall try 
to tell you what flowers will be most satisfactory, 
and at the same time most easily grown. 
Waste very little time on inferior things, for in the 
country you will have enough to do to fully and en- 
joyably occupy every hour. Be prompt to throw 
