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Work to be done in the Garden . 
however, allow for the difference that the green 
leaves will make when they mix with the flowers. 
When the colours and shapes are settled, you 
have, moreover, to decide upon your flowers, and 
to be careful as to their height. 
A good gardener would keep a list each year 
of plants that seemed to grow well, and of their 
height and colour, and their time of flowering. 
You might sew paper together into a little 
garden-book, and on one page mark plants that 
you wish to have again, and on another, set down 
what you consider failures. Remember always 
that many tall-growing things will still do for 
pegging down, and thus make good beds of 
flowers. Roses even are often done in this way. 
But almost any plants that flower on side-shoots 
answer. 
One very important thing I had nearly forgotten, 
but if you should happen not yet to have planted 
Hyacinths in your garden, and have any places 
ready for them, you may even in January put in 
your roots, and they will often flourish. 
I planted last year, myself, a good many 
Hyacinths and Anemones as late as January, and 
they blossomed quite nicely about April and May. 
The roots should be put in about four inches 
