GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



and never let dry out. Some of this seed will ger- 

 minate in less than a week, while some may take 

 so long that you will think it is not going to grow 

 at all! But don't give up; and maybe some clay 

 when you have forgotten all about it, you wiU 

 discover a lot of new babies in your nursery. 



TRANSPLANTING PEREN^^ALS 



As soon as your seedlings are big and strong 

 enough to be handled, they must be carefully lifted 

 and set in another part of the nursery, not less than 

 3 inches apart, protected from the hot sun, and 

 left until they become strong, sturdy children. 

 Then early in the fall, before the middle of Septem- 

 ber, you can take them up very gently, without dis- 

 turbing their tiny rootlets, and put them with their 

 friends and relatives in the garden, wherever you 

 wish them to bloom the following summer. 



Of course you couldn't.- — and 3'ou wouldn't want 

 to grow everything you ever saw or heard about! 

 Just think of the fun, however, of picking out a 

 small number that will be sure to give you flow- 

 ers, one after another, from earliest spring until 

 cold weather! Yet the following list, suggested by 

 one authority, is easy to get and little trouble to 

 care for : 



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