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and find out for yourselves just what varieties are best 

 suited to your own locality. The list given here is only 

 intended to suggest some plants which are the commonest 

 and earliest of culture among our annuals. You have 

 learned in an earlier lesson what an annual is, but it will 

 make an interesting chapter in your garden note books if 

 you will devote a few pages to these friends who come 

 and stay through the whole summer season with us and 

 then die. Make up a list of all the annuals you meet 

 during this coming spring and summer and record some- 

 thing of the manner of their growth, the appearance of 

 their foliage, and all you can learn about the way in which 

 their seed is borne. You will feel on much friendlier 

 terms with these garden people if you know something 

 about their home life. Try it and see. When a seed 

 catalogue is picked up there is such a wealth of pretty 

 things from which to select that one is a little dazed and 

 not quite sure whether or not he wants anything at all if 

 he cannot have all. So for a first garden it is best to 

 cling to the old friends and to hunt them up in the best 

 catalogues you can secure. A list of several reliable 

 seedsmen is given on the last page. There are so many 

 first-class catalogues issued that the list was restricted 

 to only five names. Send a postal card to each of these 

 five at least and ask them to send you their 1903 cata- 

 logue. This they will gladly do without expense of 

 postage. 



Sweet peas, petunias, phlox, nasturtiums, asters and 

 balsams are all old friends of your mother and she will 

 gladly tell you about these annuals and how to grow 

 them. New varieties of these are put out each year and 

 each year finds them more beautiful than ever before, so 

 a word as to some of the new varieties of these old favor- 



