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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONS. 
Conducted by 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
Leav’ the World a pleasanter place than you found it. 
ANNUALS AND BULBS FOR HOME GROUNDS. 
Both hardy bulbs and hardy annuals hold 
important places among the materials for planting 
home grounds. 
Dutch, and other 
early^flowering bulbs 
open the flower sea- 
son, and coming as 
they do at the time 
when one yearns for 
evidences of Winter's 
annual overthrow, 
they probably yield 
more pleasure than 
any other class of 
plants. They are 
otherwise satisfactory 
too, in that most of 
them are almost cer- 
tain to flower every 
year. They seem ea- 
ger to prove that the 
Spring resurrection 
may be relied upon. 
They are comforting 
Easter symbols. That 
most of them are odor- 
less should not count 
It is given to few persons or things 
to be perfect. Besides, among them are some of the 
sweetest flowers that blow, as, for instance, the 
Hyacinth. 
As for Lilies, they amplify the glories of summer, 
acceptably filling certain blanks ameng herbaceous 
plants of another character. 
There are so many kinds of Lilies that thrive 
with slight care that no one should be content with 
the two or three sorts ordinarily grown. Have 
them all, from the dainty little coral blooms of 
Lilium tenuifolium or Siberian lily, to the immense 
bells of Lilium auratum, the great golden banded 
lily of Japan, whose rich perfume is spilled as 
generously as is that of the tropical water lily, 
Victoria regia. 
If bu’b )us plants supply the first flowers ot 
spring, annuals furnish them in unstinted measure 
just at the time when those of shrubs and herb- 
aceous plants are scarce. While shrubs and 
perennials are doing their best to attract all atten- 
SHrRT.m' POPPIES. 
aeainst them. 
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tion to themselves, the little seedlings are busily 
growing and patiently biding their time, knowing 
that he laughs best who laughs last, and that they 
are going to make a good showing on the home 
stretch. Indeed by' proper management, there will 
be a goodly array on view by' the time the half mile 
post is reached. 
No garden should be without Nasturtiums, not 
only for cutting, but as garden ornaments. Rightly 
placed and grown, they are extremely effective 
and equally reliable. Poppies too, are good as a 
feature of the planting, but should be so placed 
that something else can be grown among them to 
spread and fill their places when they are pulled 
out by the roots after flowering, as they always 
should be. It is a good plan to grow fall-sown and 
spring-sown Poppies together for this gives a long 
season of Poppies and they are all out of the way 
in time to be replaced by Asters. Or tall 
Nasturtiums may be grown among them to fill 
their vacant places in late summer and fall. 
Such coarse annuals as the Datura must be in- 
troduced with caution for, while effective in masses 
at some distance from the house, the foliage is 
usually weedy in appearance and in the cafe of the 
Datura itself, is malodc'rous, though the flowers are 
deliciously scented. 
Who, after making its acquaintance, would be 
WHITE 
DATURA 
without the Moon flower, Ipomea Noctiflora? Its 
heavy foliage forms rather shapeless, clumsy masses 
that are unsuited to small porches or light trellises; 
but in some location where its fragrant, pure white 
