A SIMPLE FLOWER GARDEN. 



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Chinese primrose, Stocks. 

 Mignonette, AUyssum. 



A couple of raisin boxes, a paper of each kind of seed, 

 and a peck of soil, will be all we need. To make the soil, 

 sift some dry loam, from the garden, through a coal-sieve, 

 and mix it with one-half its weight of common mason's 

 sand. Having filled the boxes, sow the seed in them, as 

 directed for fine seeds in Chapter I. Set the boxes in 

 some shady place till the seeds come up, then sink the 

 boxes to the rim in the garden loam. In about three 

 weeks, the young plants will require setting out in pots for 

 the winter. How to do this is told in the next chapter. 



