44 Making a Garden to Bloom This Year 
none too soon — later than the end of 
March is risky. As a matter of fact, the 
house offers an opportunity for earlier 
starting than the hotbed, ordinarily, for 
the latter is not ready usually before the 
first of March. 
But there are the little plants themselves 
on sale in the spring — practically every 
kind of flower — and if these are resorted 
to, one may have anything, regardless of 
its being slow or fast growing. Some may 
not do as well the first year as later, to be 
sure, though, being pot-grown plants, they 
feel the transplanting so little that it some- 
times does not affect them at all. It is 
usually only the early-flowering kinds — 
those whose natural period of bloom is 
earlier than July — which suffer much. 
The tall, rich blue delphiniums at the 
back of a long straight border, with 
Japanese hybrid chrysanthemums against 
them, and Gypsophila paniculata in the 
foreground, is a suggestion that will fill a 
space four feet wide; or, starting at the 
back with Hibiscus Manihot 9 Shasta 
daisies may come next, Dianthus barbatus 
next, and an edging of Cerastium tomento- 
sum mark the line at the grass. Cam- 
