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228. Foxgloves will bloom next spring from seed 

 sown this May. Cover with litter in winter 



229. African marigolds photographed from above. 

 They hide the ground and are covered with flowers 



231. Eight weeKs ago this poppy-bed was full of hyacinths; eight weeks later it will 232. This 40 x 45- foot garden cost $50 to start : it requires $10 a year 10 main- 

 be full of verbenas. The hyacinths are permanent. Annuals are sown May 1st tain ; and needs an hour's care a day. It is on a lot 70 x 100 feet 



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233. An eight-foot hedge of hollyhocks is cut down 234. The Golden Glow flowers in August and the 235. Aconite or monhsnood, a blue autumn-blooming 

 in July, revealing a row of Golden Glow hollyhocKs spring up again perennial with flowers that open in a singular way 



A FLOWER GARDEN THAT COSTS TEN DOLLARS A YEAR— BY L. SOLLMAN, OHIO 



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