Me. Gals- Had Mr. Galsworthy's exhibition come in the fall, all my available 
worthy's cash would have gone to Messrs. Barr & Co., of England, for some 
Narcissi of those eighty fine varieties of Daffodils, whose portraits he has 
AND Tulips painted so entrancingly. My admiration for his sketches of Tulips 
and Narcissi knows no bounds, but somehow his garden pictures and 
other flower studies left me cold. 
And now, having given Mrs. McKnight four hundred and sixty- 
nine words of introduction, I must get down to business. 
Early Remember to get seeds at once of the Ipomea Cerulea (Heavenly 
Seeds Blue), Dreer; Petunia — Pearl of KentHeld (flesh pink, frilled, from 
Richard Diener, Kentfield, California), and have them started at 
once by a local florist. The former is difl&cult to start but will repay 
any amount of trouble. 
Delphin- The choice Delphiniums also — especially the Belladonna seedlings 
lUM Seed — should be started early and pricked out into flats, if you want 
good September bloom of this rarest fall color. , 
Seeds of I find Annuals absolutely necessary, especially for the front of 
Annuals my hardy border. The following are what I have on my spring order 
list, the outcome of twenty-six years of gardening. The seven indis- 
pensables I have marked with an asterisk: 
Ageratum* {Imperial Dwarf Blue); Aretotis grandis; Asperula: 
Balsam* (double — salmon pink); Candy Tuft (mauve); Calendula 
(orange — King and Meteor) ; Celosia plumosa (yeUow only) ; Antirr- 
hinum; Aster (single); Convolvulus minor (pink, Sutton); Coreopsis 
(dark maroon only); Feverfew;* Gypsophila elegans*\ Larkspur 
(Stock flowered in variety) ; Lavatera; Lupin (white) ; Linaria (white) ; 
Matthiola Bicornis (sweet scented); Marigolds: Nicotine {Sander ce 
Hybrids); Phlox Drunmondi* (salmon pink and Isabellina); Poppy 
(Shirley and Carnation, flowered); Petunia (blue and flesh pink, 
frilled); Saponaria (pink and white); Silene (double, salmon); Sca- 
bious (mauve) : Stock (mauve, palest pink and ecru) ; Verbena {Ellen 
Wilmott); Zinnias.* 
Most of these can be had from all the seedsmen on our Bulletin 
list; the others can be ordered from Sutton, in care of H. P. Winter, 
64 Wall Street, New York City. 
Omissions I can hear my sister gardeners exclaim, "Oh, what an awful list — 
lots of my favorites left out!" etc. Of course, this is only a "starter." 
As I have no gardener nor frames, I can not have Salpiglossis nor 
Antirrhinums nor Petunias, unless I have them started for me. 
Sweet Peas People differ so about Sweet Peas that the best advice seems to 
be to get Burpee's Catalog and have them grown in rows in the 
vegetable garden, starting in March. 
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