A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



wanted and of cards with names of things super- 

 fluous. One person can thus readily rectify mat- 

 ters to the satisfaction of all. I shall never forget 

 the pretty sight at the meeting of a certain ador- 

 able garden club, where heaps of pink- wrapped 

 bundles of the roots of hardy pale-yellow chrysan- 

 themums were free for all to take home as many 

 as they liked ! For most of us things multiply so 

 quickly. We should remember that Achillea ptar- 

 mica. The Pearl, for instance, is actually listed in 

 many catalogues at fifteen cents, and that there 

 are many aspiring if less well-posted gardeners to 

 whom the greedy thing is worth that sum ! 



In the garden club of Alma we have sixteen 

 groups of women, each group charged with the 

 business of growing the best flowers from seed. 

 The groups at present are as follows: sweet-wilUam, 

 zinnia, gladiolus, iris, columbine, poppy, Shasta 

 daisy, geranium, dahlia, larkspur, stock, and others 

 whose names may readily occur to the reader. 

 These groups meet at their own convenience, buy 

 their seeds, plant and take care, of the trial bed 

 allotted to them. 



A year ago a fine formal garden, whose owner 

 was away, was lent us by this absent friend to use 

 by our groups as a trial garden. The various beds 



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