where they are to flower. The nights are cold through May for our 

 baby plants. You will succeed far better by waiting for warm, 

 frostless nights before "setting out" young frame or green- 

 house plants. An exception may be made with Pansies, Viola 

 Cornuta and Palustris, Forget-Me-Nots, although you will have 

 no more or better flowers than the cautious, patient gardener, who 

 waits for settled warmth. Young heliotrope plants cannot sur- 

 vive even a mild frost and there are numberless others that are 

 just as susceptible. There will be no shock to your seedlings, if 

 you wait and they will grow on unchecked, presenting more luxu- 

 riant bloom than plants hurried into the open ground. If you will 

 order twenty-five nursery plants of the hybrid Viola Atropururea, 

 hundreds of others may be grown from cuttings taken from these 

 hardy, ever-blooming plants. There is an extraordinary annual 

 Poppy. I saw it in just one garden last Summer, Their seed may 

 now be obtained in minute quantities, but just a pinch of these tiny 

 seed will produce quite the most bewitching flowers. They are 

 larger than the hardy Orientals growing on strong stems fully 

 thirty inches tall; the colors are of every lovely hue and they are 

 so graceful and silky and unusual. Only sow these Poppies in the 

 open where they are to flower. 



Please grow some white Forget-Me-Nots, and oh, such quan- 

 tities of Viola Cornuta, blue Pansies and blue and white dwarf 

 Delphinium Chinensis. Edge your pergola borders with these; 

 border your rambler roses with clouds of blue, border every bed 

 with low growing flowers. This is a garden feature now, that will 

 not be transitory. Rather tardily we have adopted it, you will 

 agree, when we realize that in English and French gardens border- 

 ing and edging with flowers is more than a century old. 



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