simply means the separation and selection of 

 your favorites. 



^ Good simple loam, good fertile seed and good 

 care is all that is needed to grow these uncom- 

 monly beautiful flowers. I hope every Amateur 

 will grow a lovely favorite anemone of mine — it 

 is sweet little Sylve^ris. Sylve^ris is a dainty 

 little white flower growing but a foot tall, but 

 so hardy and faithful. Dear, pretty, gracious 

 things, they are among the ferns and columbines 

 the fir^t to greet us every Spring — welcoming us 

 back again to our gardens. 



SOME BULBS 

 THAT SHOULD BE PLANTED THIS FALL 



^ " It is truly a new civilization although an old 

 era that brought us the Darwins." How true this 

 is! I wish I knew who said it. 

 ^ Wearied from long, long months of Winter and 

 un-Spring-like Springs, the Darwin tulips lead the 

 gay pageant of the tall flowers, so proudly un- 

 furling their colors of every hue to welcome us. 



The Crocuses — I wish their ^ay was less brief, 

 don't you? And the poor disappointed little 



