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CHILDREN’S GARDENS 
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the year, but it might be difficult for children 
to grow them, as in many parts of England 
there is always a risk that the frost will kill 
them, and in a tiny garden there is no place 
in which the plants can be stored for the 
winter. They like a good deal of moisture 
and rich soil. 
It is more difficult to name many dwarf or 
low-growing plants for autumn flowering. There 
is, however, nothing better for a small, shady 
garden than cyclamen (see page 29); two sorts, 
the European and the ivy-leaved (C. hederi- 
folium ), keep on sending up dear little pink 
flowers until late November. The best way to 
raise plants is by seed, as they form seed very 
freely and they cannot be divided, as they have 
little round tubers which must not be cut up. 
Another plant easily raised from seed, which 
makes a good show in the autumn and only grows 
about six inches high, is Silene schafta , which 
bears a profusion of mauvish pink flowers. In 
warm dry places a small creeping convolvulus 
with bright pale mauve flowers will do well 
until late autumn, and can be raised from a 
penny packet of seed. It is called Convolvulus 
mauntanicus. It will also grow from cuttings. 
Besides these, many annuals go on flowering 
until the frost cuts them down ; marigolds, 
eschscholtzia, coreopsis, Phlox Drummondi , 
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