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one wishes to fill in with summer flowers the ground occupied 

 in spring by the spring flowering bulbs. 



Among the flowers that may be transplanted in this way 

 to great advantage are the cosmos and the China Asters. 

 Both of these are likely to do as well when thus started 

 out-doors as they will do if the seed is started in-doors 

 under the ordinary conditions of the house or school-room. 

 While you desire to get the cosmos started as early as 

 one can obtain a good growth, it is neither necessary nor 

 desirable in the case of most kinds of China Asters; for these 

 will blossom freely in August and September, if the seed is 

 sown out-doors about the middle of May, and the blossoms 

 are not so likely to go by before the end of the open season. 

 The young aster plants are really hardy, sometimes coming up 

 in early spring from self-sown seed of the previous autumn, 

 so that they can, if so desired, be planted out-doors as early 

 as the other hardy annuals. In the case of the large branch- 

 ing varieties, it seems probable that you will get longer stems 

 and larger flowers from seed sown early. Try it and learn 

 for yourself. 



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Flowers 



Sow in a sheltered spot near a building, or in a cold-frame, seeds of all 

 flowers that are to be transplanted. 



Sow in places where they are to remain seeds of other flowers. 



Plant the outside window-boxes and porch-boxes. Make each a 

 picture that shall have unity. 



Plant late in the month the summer flowering bulbs — dahlia, glad- 

 iolus, tuberose. 



FlTENiSH support of brush or wire to sweet peas as soon as they are 

 five inches high. 



