338 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
May, 1906 
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SPRING WORK IN THE FLOWER 
GARDEN 
By Eben E. Rexford 
TAKE it for granted that many of the 
flower-loving readers of this magazine in- 
tend to do something in gardening this 
season, therefore a chapter of hints and sug- 
gestions for the benefit of inexperienced gar- 
deners may be in order. 
Do not be in too great a hurry to “make 
garden.” The enthusiasm of the amateur 
gardener always runs high at the opening of 
the season, and the first warm days that come 
set us thinking of bed-making and seed-sowing. 
But keep in mind the old saying that “One 
swallow does not make a summer,” nor do the 
first sunshiny days of April go to prove that 
warm weather has come to stay. Select your 
seeds now, if you have not already done so, 
but be wise enough to keep them out of the 
ground until the soil is sufficiently warm to 
insure germination. If you sow them while 
the soil is damp and cold, very few of the 
more delicate kinds will be likely to grow, and 
the hardier kinds will be injured, rather than 
benefited, by your efforts to “get ahead of the 
season.” 
The first thing for the flower gardener to 
do is to decide what he will have and where 
he will have it. No one would think about 
building a house and not deciding about the 
arrangement of its rooms until it was built. 
If he were to do so, matters would most likely 
result in a jumble, which would be quite un- 
satisfactory to all concerned. While the ar- 
rangement of the flower garden is not a matter 
of as much importance as that of the home, 
it must be given thought and carefully planned 
out if we would have it afford the greatest 
possible amount of pleasure. Make a diagram 
of it on paper. When you have decided on 
your beds, locate each flower you are going to 
make use of, and mark down its place on your 
diagram. With such a guide to follow, the 
usual mistakes of getting plants and colors in 
the wrong places may be wholly avoided. 
What do I mean by that, some one may 
ask. Simply this: that low-growing plants 
must be given places in the foreground in 
order to make them effective, and tall kinds 
must be placed at the rear. Locate each plant 
quite as much according to its height as its 
color. And on no account allow yourself to 
ignore color considerations. ‘This is one of 
the most important features of gardening. In- 
harmonious colors must be kept apart by the 
use of neutral ones. In order to be able to 
arrange your plants in such a manner that 
there will be no conflict, either as to size or 
color, study your catalogues well, and learn 
about the characteristics of the plants you pro- 
pose to make use of before you assign them to 
definite places in the garden. 
I have a friend, a lady, who plans her flower 
garden, or, rather, decides upon the location 
of the colors in it, by using bits of silk of the 
colors of the plants she intends to grow. 
These she arranges and rearranges until she 
succeeds in getting a harmonious color scheme. 
Such a plan will be found very helpful by 
those who want to make sure, in advance, of 
harmony in the garden. 
The second thing to do is to order your 
seeds. Always patronize dealers who have 
established a reputation for honesty and fair 
dealing. What they tell you about a plant 
you can depend on. ‘Their seeds are always 
reliable, because they never handle inferior 
stock. They may cost somewhat more than 
those offered by other dealers, but they are 
well worth the extra money. 
