GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
which is a fast growing climber having peculiar 
yellow-brown flowers the shape of a pipe. Though 
these seeds are only ten cents per packet, the young 
plants are sold by the nurserymen for fifty cents 
apiece: so if you grow them yourself you can 
figure out what a valuable little house you will 
have! 
The everlasting pea is a sprawling, quick grower, 
having many flowers in a cluster, and bloomirig in 
August. It thrives in even the most common soil, 
and gets better every year. It comes in white, pink 
and red, and a package of the mixed colors can 
be bought for five cents. 
Other things besides vines are good for flower 
playhouses. Hollyhocks, planted in a square or a 
circle, will soon be high enough to screen you from 
the curious butcher-boy or the neighbor’s maid. 
While most kinds are biennials, and so do not bloom 
until the second summer, you can either coax a 
few plants from some grown-up friend that has 
a lot already established, or you can buy seed of 
the new annual variety, which, if sown in May, will 
flower in July! 
Sunflowers, too, are to be found in several va- 
rieties, ranging from 6 to 8 ft. in height, which you 
could use for a sort of a stockade, a 14 Robinson 
Crusoe. Those having the small blossoms are nice 
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