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Wallflowers for November 

 Flower 



MANYgardens have wallflowers in bed or border 

 through the summer, but I have found a 

 number of people who do not in the least know 

 their unique value for late autumn flowering, 

 or for winter house plants. 



Our Maine season is short. We cannot depend 

 upon late-flowering roses, and even the hardiest 

 chrysanthemums can hardly stand our early 

 autumn frost. They blossom so sparingly, and 

 are killed outright so often, that they are not worth 

 while. In our own. garden we depend for autumn 

 flowers upon pansies, or various of the hardier 

 daisies and sunflowers, or a little late mignonette; 

 but chiefly and with greatest comfort on our 

 wallflowers. When everything else in the garden 

 is black with frost (in spite of hasty covering at 

 night with every available shawl or rug the house 

 affords), they are in full beauty. I have even 

 picked them, fresh and fragrant as in summer, 

 in the second week of November. 



Our soil is heavy clay. We sow the wall- 

 flowers in the hotbed, a little later than the other 

 seedlings. Through July and August the plants 

 grow green and strong and vigorous, but show no 

 signs of flowers. In early September the massed 

 flower heads begin to appear, and then come the 

 first yellow or maroon-crimson blossoms. 



By the middle of September the bed is in full 

 beauty of rich color, velvety soft petals, and 

 delicious fragrance, and it stays so, as I have said, 

 long after practically all the rest of the garden is 

 a blackened wreck. We have wallflowers for 

 the dining-room table and for the parlor through 

 November, though by that time they mature 

 slowly because of the cold nights. 



And the pleasure even then is only beginning. 

 Wallflowers in full blossom seem scarcely to 

 notice being taken up and potted. All they 

 ask is a cool room (an unheated bedroom or entry 

 is just right, if the doors are left open, and the 

 rest of the house is comfortably heated; direct 

 furnace or stove heat they cannot stand, unless 

 they are close to a very leaky window), full sun- 

 shine, and almost unlimited water. They will 

 blossom almost without limit. I have had six 

 great plants over two feet high literally a mass 

 of golden or golden-brown blossoms from November 

 till June, and the whole house fragrant with their 

 violet-like perfume. We have had our windows 

 filled with them all winter now for eight years. 



Maine. Rosalind Richards. 



Making a Strawberry Bed 



BY ALL means set out a strawberry bed now. 

 About the only land that won't grow straw- 

 berries is a very wet or sour soil. I know of 

 nothing better than new timbered land provided 

 there is not a heavy sod on it. Old pasture land 

 is well suited except that there is the danger of 

 grubs, which will destroy the young plants unless 

 some other crop has been grown the year before 

 the plants are set. If you have a plot of ground 

 which is convenient to the house and well drained, 

 make the strawberry bed there. First scatter 

 over the plowed ground stable manure at the rate 

 of twenty or thirty loads to the acre and harrow 

 it in early in the spring. If possible the ground 

 should be broken in the fall, but I have had as 

 good success by plowing as early as the ground 

 could be worked, and harrowing and otherwise 



