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NEXT SUMMER’S FLOWER 
GARDEN 
By Eben E. Rexford 
T IS not too early in the season to begin next 
summer’s gardening operations. We can 
not spade up the soil, make beds, and sow 
seed, it is true, but we can plan for these 
things while we have plenty of leisure time, 
and a garden well planned is a garden half 
made. A garden that is not planned in ad- 
vance is never a satisfactory garden, because 
work done under pressure will most surely be 
slighted somewhere. Get ready for your 
work before the time for doing it is at hand. 
The first thing I would advise doing is, 
to decide upon what flowers you are going to 
Knowing what you are going to have, 
grow. 
you can easily Mecide where they are to be 
planted and how they shall be arranged. 
These are important items. Plants are often 
spoiled by being placed where they do not 
belong. Proper arrangement often doubles 
the effectiveness of them. 
The gardener who does not decide in ad- 
vance on the material from which next sum- 
mer’s garden is to be made can not make any 
intelligent plans for it, for when it comes to 
the making of it he may find himself unpro- 
vided with the material which would enable 
him to work out his plans successfully. Always 
know what you are going to work with, and 
make your plans conform to your material. 
In order to do this, location and arrangement 
must always be taken into consideration. A 
plant out of place is a plant cheated out of the 
opportunity of doing itself justice. 
Therefore, when the florists’ catalogues 
come, go over them and select your seeds. 
There will be so many kinds to choose from 
that you will not find it an easy matter to 
limit yourself to the few you can properly 
care for, but let me give you a bit of advice 
which is the result of my own personal ex- 
perience: Never attempt to grow more 
plants than you know you can give all the at- 
tention they need. A garden to be satisfac- 
tory must be kept clean. Each plant in it 
must be given the opportunity to make the 
most of itself. This will call for a good deal 
of work. If you know how much time you 
will be able to devote to gardening operations, 
and have had any experience along this line, 
you ought to be able to calculate pretty closely 
as to the extent of your undertaking, always 
keeping in mind the fact that a few plants, 
well grown, will afford vastly more satisfac- 
tion to the enthusiastic gardener than a great 
many inferior ones. “Therefore, in selecting 
seeds, resolutely put aside the temptation to 
get every kind of flower that appeals to you 
by the attractive description the florist has 
given it, and confine your list to such kinds 
as you know you can depend on to give satis- 
faction. “These may be old kinds, but they are 
all the better for that, for the fact that they 
retain their places in the catalogue year after 
year proves that they have the merit you can 
not afford to overlook. “They are the stand- 
bys, which never disappoint. 
While I would not undertake to make a se- 
lection for a person who is familiar with our 
annuals—knowing how tantalizingly delight- 
ful a task it is for the flower lover to make 
his or her own selection—I trust I may be par- 
doned in naming a few of the best annuals, 
for in doing this I may be able to give some 
assistance to amateurs who have had little or 
no experience in flower growing, and would 
be glad of a little advice. If I were to make 
a selection of a dozen kinds I would choose 
