A SIMPLE FLOWER GARDEN. 



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CHAPTER XII. 



MARCH. 



With this month we complete the year. Spring has 

 returned, and the garden again demands our attention. 



ROTATION 



of crops is one of the great principles of agriculture. No 

 less is it important in horticulture. The crops of our 

 flower garden must be treated to the same rotation as is 

 applied to our farm crops. The verbena, heliotrope, and 

 rose must change their position each year, precisely as do 

 the potato, squash, and turnip. How to accomplish this 

 in our two little borders is not so very easy to decide. 

 The best we can • do is to change the number and kinds of 

 our bedding plants, and to set them out, as far as possible, 

 in other places than those they occupied last year. 



A very much better way than this is not to rotate the 

 crops, but the garden. If the entire garden is taken up 

 and removed to another place, the desired end is attained. 

 All of the plants have new and fresh soil, and all have had 

 the benefit of rotation. 



To do this, cut out new borders of any desired size or 



