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worthless crops, or flowering things of poor kinds, 

 it had better be all deeply dug and manured so that 

 it is in readiness for autumn sowing. The first 

 seeds to sow will bo those of Poppies, about the 

 middle of August; the great double Opium Poppies, 

 Shirley Poppies, and beautiful kinds such as Po'paver 

 (jlaiicum and P. tcmhrosum. Then in the first or 

 second week of September we can sow Sweet Peas. 

 They should be sown thinly in a shallow trench, 

 say three inches deep at the bottom and sloping out 

 to a width of a foot at the ground-level, and they 

 should stand about four inches hiofh in the shelter of 

 the trench through the winter. Other good things to 

 sow at this time are Nemophila, Omphcdodes linifolia, 

 tall annual Larkspurs, Pot Marigold, Platystemon, 

 and annual Iberis; then we must try and beg or buy 

 some biennials that were sown last May — Wall- 

 flowers, Pansies, Foxgloves, Mulleins, Canterbury Bells, 

 CEnothera lamarkiana, and Sweet- William. If there 

 are any bedding plants worth saving, cuttings should 

 be made in August. The simplest gardener knows 

 how to make cuttings and how to make a hotbed, 

 but any amateurs who wish to know for themselves 

 should have that most useful book, "Johnson's 

 Gardener's Dictionary" (George Bell & Son). 



It is difficult to make any one understand how 

 very thinly annual seeds should be sown, and even 

 though I know it well myself and never cease preach- 

 ing it to others, I confess that I can never sow 



