GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



care if they only have something to climb on, and 

 spread rapidly. 



The hardy vines are not so easily disposed of. 

 For instance, the clematis (with accent on the 

 elegit,) numbers thronghout the world about one 

 hundred and fifty species, — generally climbers, — in 

 white, blue, purple, red and yellow, and ranges from 

 the 2-ft. shrubby kind to the 25-ft. vine. "While our 

 common mountain clematis (Montana grandiflora) 

 flowers as early as April, the Jaclonani in mid-sum- 

 mer, and the Paniculata often as late as September, 

 the Henryi is seen even in November. And while 

 some can be grown from seed, the rest have to be 

 propagated by cutting or grafting. 



WARNING 



Right here let me again urge you to make sure of 

 the particular kind of flower, plant or vine that you 

 get, so that you will know how to treat it, and not 

 count on flowers in June from a variety that blos- 

 soms in September, or expect purple posies from 

 the white sort. The gentleman printing this book 

 will not let me take space enough to go into de- 

 tails about every thing I mention (he says paper 



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