GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
can be made to blossom as the rose,—if you only 
know how. 
As to the third step, make the list of the seeds, 
bulbs, ete., that you would like, with the idea of 
having some flowers in bloom the whole summer 
long. If you are lucky enough to have a kind 
friend or neighbor give you of her store, they will 
probably be good and come up as they should. If 
you have to buy, though, be sure to go to a first- 
class, reliable dealer, for you don’t want to waste 
your time and money on old things that won’t grow. 
Then last of all, decide on your planting from 
this list with a view to height and color, so that you 
will arrange to the best advantage,—the nastur- 
tiums which climb, for instance, going to the back 
of the bed against wall or trellis, while the dwarf 
variety should be at the front. 
BIG WORDS FOR COMMON THINGS 
To select your flowers intelligently, though, you 
must know something about their nature, habits, 
and tendencies, and certain words always found in 
seed catalogues and garden books may be puzzling 
to a beginner. 
a, Annuals, for example, are the plants that 
live but a year or a single season, 
