THE GARDEN 



tall-growing plants. In planning your garden, 

 study how to bring about these desirable results. 



Keep in mind the fact that if you go about 

 garden-making in a haphazard way, and happen 

 to get plants where they do not belong, as you are 

 quite likely to do unless you know them well, 

 you have made a mistake which cannot be recti- 

 fied until another season. This being the case, 

 guard against such mistakes by making sure 

 that you know just what plant to use to produce 

 the effect you have in mind. 



Plan to have a selection of plants that will give 

 flowers throughout the entire season. The ma- 

 jority of annuals bloom most profusely in June 

 and July, but the prevention of seed-develop- 

 ment will force them into bloom during the later 

 months. 



Plan to have a few plants in reserve, to take 

 the places of those which may fail. Something 

 is liable to happen to a plant, at any time, and 

 unless you have material at hand with which to 

 make good the loss, there will be a bare spot in 

 your beds that will be an eye-sore all the rest 

 of the season. 



Plan to have the lowest growers near the path, 

 or under the sitting-room windows whei-e you 

 can look down upon them. 



Plan to have a back-yard garden in which to 



