L. L. MAY & CO. 
ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Many schools, as well as apartment houses, are fitting 
up roof gardens for the use of the neighborhood during the 
summer months, and in crowded communities the school roof 
garden may be made a boon to the members of that community. 
The boxes should be large, and built in the form of beds, 
while the parapet about the edge of the roof can be covered 
with the narrow porch boxes. 
'riu> children can cultivate these 
roof gardens, they will be safe and happy, off the streets and 
above the heat and bad air that make the summer streets of 
our big cities so noisome. It is also a ha\^en of refuge for the 
tired parents who, too tired to drag themselves to the parks, 
may here feast their eyes, and rest from the labors of the 
day. You who live near trees and flowers, do not know what 
it means to be deprived of all sight of them, especially in the 
summer, and to the flower loving foreigners, whose whole lives 
have been spent in rural communities, they mean more than 
you can imagine. 
GROWING FLOWERS TO SELL. 
A word in passing anent the business side of the children's 
garden, the commercial aspect, as it were, where the child may 
grow flowers in the home garden for profit. The first consid- 
eration is to raise what will be readily saleable and popular, 
the second is to raise that at the least cost in the actual expen- 
diture of money, as well as labor and time. 
GLADIOLUS. 
On our experience in selling summer flowers, we have 
found the gladiolae to lead all others in popularity. They are 
by far the most beautiful in form and coloring, suggestmg the 
orchid or butterfly in shape and delicacy and more than the 
gorgeousness of the tropics in the variety and richness of shad- 
ing They range from the purest white to the deepest crun- 
son. They are cerise, violet pansy purple and pale heliotrope. 
Yellow, canary and crimson, salmon pmk, rose pmk, pale 
blush, flame color and orange are only a few of the names 
of color that may be applied to the exquisite bell like blossoms, 
sometimes three inches in diameter, that are borne seventeen 
