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SUMMER 
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inches high, and only take them into the house 
when there is fear of frost. 
Summer is the time for sowing the seeds 
of some biennials, plants which live for two 
years. They spend one year in growing, and 
in the next they flower and seed and die. 
Many of the hardy ones will seed themselves 
and come up year after year without trouble, 
and then you will find instead of planting you 
will have to pull up the seedlings, or your garden 
would be overgrown. Foxgloves and honesty 
are two of the things very likely to serve 
you so. Other biennials both easy and nice to 
grow are Campanula Medium (the Canterbury 
bells), sweet-william, Brompton stock (also the 
night-scented stock), and French honeysuckle. 
These few suggestions will show you how much 
there is to think of and do in a garden, even 
during the least busy seasons of the year, and I 
feel sure you will take a pride in inventing w ; ork. 
Now comes the question, What flowers 
should there be in a summer garden ? and it 
is indeed a hard one to answer. There are’so 
many, and all with their own special charms, 
that it is almost impossible to say that any 
one in particular can be dispensed with, and yet 
it is quite impossible to have everything even 
in a large garden, and far less possible in a very 
small one. Again, children must be reminded 
