EVERT W03IAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER, 



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. Transplanting Seedlings. 



"When the tiny plants have put forJ:h the fourth or fifth leaf, it is time 

 to provide them wth permanent homes. If this is done in the early 

 morning of a warm day — or even later in the forenoon — you may be 

 sure that you will lose your plants. But select a showery, cloudy day, 

 following a dry season, or plant after night-fall, and then water, and 

 shade from the sun of the next day, and you will hardly lose one plant, 

 or even have a leaf curl. 



Annuals of most kinds must have plenty of space to grow in. There 

 are few that are not improved by transplanting. Salpiglossis Avill grow 

 to better advantage thickly planted ; also. Erysimum Perofi*skianum, 

 whose brilliant orange flowers render it desirable to every garden. 

 Mignonette, Larkspurs and Poppies will not bear transplanting ; they 

 grow from a tap root, and do not easily attach themselves to a new home 

 after fcheir growth is once started. 



If Annuals are not planted anew after germinating, their growth is 

 weak and spindling, and they soon cease flowering; while, on the other 

 hand, they will grow luxuriantly, and blossom until the frost withers 

 their fair bloom, if their quarters are ample. Asters should be planted 

 a foot asunder each way ; and Stocks, Balsams, Zinnias and Petunias 

 require as much room, if not more, to bring them to a state of perfec- 

 tion ; and, if mulched with fine manure early in July, they will bloom 

 magnificently. 



What Shall We Plant? 



This is the query of many women who examine the Illustrated Cata- 

 logues, and are not familiar with the high-sounding names, and, there- 

 fore, totally at loss to know what are desirable and needful out of the 

 thousands of varieties, illustrated and described therein. 



I will give a list of those whose beauties are familiar to me, and whose 

 names are household words : 



Asters, Truffauts, Eose Asters, Imbrique, Pompone, Chrysanthemum 

 Flowered, Bouquet, in all their varied colorings and shapes. No garden 

 can afford to be without one or all of these varieties ; and they take 

 chief rank in the tribe of Annuals. 



Amaranthus melancholicus, variegated leaves. 



Anagallis. 



Abrobra, a lovely climber. 



Abronia, very effective for rock-work. 



