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man who likes sunflowers. There-are enough of them to be worth 
looking at. They fill the eye. Now show this man ten feet 
square of pinks or asters, or daisies, all growing free and easy and 
he will tell you that he likesthem. All this has a particular ap- 
plication to the farmer, who is often said to dislike flowers. 
He grows potatoes and buckwheat and weeds by the acre: two 
or three unhappy pinks or geraniums are not enough to make 
att impression. 
Lawn flower-beds. 
Theeasiest way to spoil a good lawn is to put a flower-bed in it; 
and the most effective way in which to show off flowers to the 
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least advantage is to plant them in a bed in the greensward. 
Flowers need a background. We do not hang our pictures on 
fence-posts. If flowers are to be grown on a lawn, let them be of 
the hardy kind, which can be naturalized in the sod and which 
grow freely in the tall unmown grass; or else perennials of such 
nature that they make attractive clumps by themselves. Lawns 
should be free and generous, but the more they are cut up and 
worried with trivial effects, the smaller and meaner they look. 
But even if we consider these lawn flower-beds wholly apart 
from their surroundings, we must admit that they are at best 
