SPRING WORK 



bed, and putting seed into the ground. Thought 

 should be given to the location and arrangement 

 of each kind of flower you make use of. The 

 haphazard location of any plant is. likely to do it 

 injustice, and the whole garden suffers in conse- 

 quence. 



Make a mental picture of your garden as you 

 would like to have it, and then take an inventory 

 of the material you have to work with, and see 

 how near you can come to the garden you have 

 in mind. Try to find the proper place for every 

 flower. Study up on habit, and color, and season 

 of bloom, and you will not be likely to get things 

 into the wrong place as you will be almost sure 

 to do if you do not give considerable thought to 

 this matter. There should be orderliness and 

 system in the garden as well as in the house, and 

 this can only come by knowing your plants, and 

 so locating them that each one of them w^ill have 

 the opportunity of making the most of itself. 



Beds can be spaded as soon as the frost is 

 out of the ground, as advised in the chapter on 

 The Garden of Annuals, but, as was said in that 

 chapter, it is not advisable to do more with them 

 at that time. If the ground is worked over when 

 wet, the only result is that you get a good many 

 small clods to take the place of large ones. Noth- 



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