GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
and never let dry out. Some of this seed will ger- 
minate in less than a week, while some may take 
so long that you will think it is not going to grow 
at all! But don’t give up; and maybe some day 
when you have forgotten all about it, you will 
discover a lot of new babies in your nursery. 
TRANSPLANTING PERENNIALS 
As soon as your seedlings are big and strong 
enough to be handled, they must be carefully lifted 
and set in another part of the nursery, not less than 
3 inches apart, protected from the hot sun, and 
left until they become strong, sturdy children. 
Then early in the fall, before the middle of Septem- 
ber, you can take them up very gently, without dis- 
turbing their tiny rootlets, and put them with their 
friends and relatives in the garden, wherever you 
wish them to bloom the following summer. 
Of course you couldn’t,—and you wouldn’t want 
to grow everything you ever saw or heard about! 
Just think of the fun, however, of picking out a 
small number that will be sure to give you flow- 
ers, one after another, from earliest spring until 
cold weather! Yet the following list, suggested by 
one authority, is easy to get and little trouble to 
care for: 
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