GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



that the owner knows how to plant for succession 

 of bloom. The ground is laid out this way. 









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FLOWERS 



PLAN FOR A SMALL BACK YARD 



If you can have only a single flower bed, however, 

 try to get it in a sunny, protected spot, preferably 

 facing south, where the cold winds of early spring 

 and late fall will do the least damage. Make a list 

 of the flowers that like such conditions, — and most 

 of them do, — and then pick out those you prefer, 

 writing after each name the time that it blooms. 

 Be sure to select some of each of the early spring, 

 late spring, summer, early fall, and late fall, so that 

 you will have flowers to enjoy the whole season 

 through. 



SUCCESSION OF BLOOM 

 For example, you can choose first from the cro- 

 cus, snowdrop, scilla, the hardy candytuft that 

 rivals the snow for whiteness, and the tiny creep- 



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