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A SIMPLE FLOWER GARDEN. 



dressing at least once a year, success in lawn or garden 

 need not be expected. The manure applied in the spring 

 need not be repeated the coming season. It should have 

 been done the previous fall, but could not, as the house was 

 not occupied by its present tenants at that time. 



SEED-SAVING 



is not advised. It is the best economy not to save seeds of 

 the garden flowers, but to buy new and other kinds of some 

 reliable seed merchant. In this connection the abandon- 

 ing of all the bedding and other plants in the garden may 

 be touched upon. • It is possible to take up nearly all of the 

 plants, and save them over through the winter ; but it is not 

 advisable. With the exception of those plants that have been 

 taken up and stored in the cellar, the rest are not worth the 

 trouble and expense of keeping. By actual experiment it has 

 been proved to be cheaper to throw away all the garden 

 plants each fall, and buy new the next spring. 



