GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
b. Biennials, however, continue for two years 
before they perish, making roots and 
leaves the first year and usually flowering 
the second. 
ce. Perennials are the kind that continue for 
more than two years. 
d. Deciduous refers to the shrubs and trees that 
lose their leaves in the fall. 
e. Evergreens are those that keep their verdure 
the whole year round. 
f. Herbaceous plants may be annual, biennial 
or perennial, but they have a stem that 
does not become woody, and that dies down 
after flowering. 
g. Hybrids are plants produced by ‘‘crossing,’’ 
or mixing two distinct varieties. 
PLANT NEEDS 
All plant life, you must understand, requires five 
things—WARMTH, LIGHT, AIR, WATER and 
FOOD. But plants differ as much as people, and 
some need more of one thing than they do of an- 
other. Some grow best in sunlight, others in the 
shade; some in sand, others in rich soil. You will 
have to find out what each kind requires. The food 
properties needed in the soil have some big names, 
too,—nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid, all of 
which are found in farm manures. If you can not 
conveniently get these, however, florists and seed- 
men can supply you with other fertilizers more eas- 
ily handled, 
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