1911. 
Fifty Cents for Flower Seeds. 
Just at this season there is an army 
of women and girls planning for a flower 
garden next Summer; some with ample 
space and unlimited material, others with 
a skimpy bit of ground and a few pinched 
packets of seed. If seed’s always grew, 
and flowers always bloomed, we should 
soon turn the whole country into one 
vast sea of blossoms, but unfortunately 
this is a world of disappointments, and 
no one knows this better than the am¬ 
ateur gardener. 
If we had just 50 cents to invest in 
flower seeds, we should cut out expen¬ 
sive novelties, no matter how dearly we 
longed to try them, and confine ourselves 
to the purchase of five-cent packages, 
feeling quite sure that if we sent to a 
reliable house we should get something 
well worth while, even though we had 
no sensational varieties. Our list would 
include pansies, mignonette, two packets 
of nasturtiums, dwarf and climbing, Pe¬ 
tunias, Zinnias, Shirley poppies, Cosmos, 
sweet peas and cornflowers. As we 
go over it this seems a very restricted 
list; there are hosts of other things we 
should like, and it is also open to the 
objection that it is likely to leave some 
gaps in flowering periods. There is 
nothing to give early flowers except the 
pansies, and these should have been sown 
the year before. However, if the garden 
is so new that there is nothing in it in 
the way of Spring bulbs or early shrubs, 
we must try to remedy this by another 
season. 
It hardly seems necessary to go into 
details about sowing the seed, because as 
a rule the seed packets have concise 
printed instructions as to time of sowing, 
etc. It would be well, however, to 
divide the packet of pansy seed in half, 
sowing one installment in a shallow 
box or pan in February, to start in 
the house, the remainder being sown 
outdoors in a well-prepared bed in early 
Spring. More seed should be procured 
later and sown out of doors in early 
September, these plants being wintered 
over outside to give early Spring flowers. 
We should make two sowings of the 
mignonette, too, one in early Spring and 
the other about the first of August, to 
give us Fall flowers. 
If there are early frosts in Fall we 
often find our Cosmos cut down before 
we have had many flowers, even in 
the latitude of New York, if the plants 
have not been started indoors. If, for 
this reason, we do not wish to try 
Cosmos in our 50-cent collection, we 
would substitute the miniature or cu¬ 
cumber-leaved sunflower, Helianthus cu- 
cumerifolius. This produces a profu¬ 
sion of daisy-like yellow flowers, excel¬ 
lent for cutting, all through Summer 
and Fall, and with us it always self¬ 
sows, so that plants appear year after 
year. It is extremely satisfactory. 
Shirley poppies and Petunias self-sow 
so freely that we always have plenty of 
them year after year, filling up odd cor¬ 
ners apart from those freshly sown. Both 
are sown early and sometimes we sow 
the Petunias in the Fall, after planting 
tulips; then they make an early growth, 
and fill up the bed by the time the tulips 
are over. Petunias are transplanted as 
easily gs weeds, so we thin them out 
and plarR the extra ones anywhere we 
wish. I lie poppies do not transplant 
well, because of their long tap root, 
though we have successfully moved some' 
little self-sown plants early in Spring. 
Zinnias are so sturdy that we must 
have them, but unless a pink or white 
strain is chosen they must be sown 
where their vivid colors will not con¬ 
flict with other flowers. As for sweet 
peas, they may do well or they may do 
ill, according to season and treatment. 
They must be sown early, allowed to 
root deeply and must not suffer from 
drought. They should be planted where 
they can be removed to make way for 
something else when flowering is over. 
We would make two sowings of corn¬ 
flowers. As for the nasturtiums, they 
will “jes’ grow” like Topsy if given the 
least bit of a chance. 
If we were limited to 50 cents for 
our flower seeds we would cut out one 
packet from the above and buy some 
biennial or perennial to give us a start 
n . e3 5* y. ear ’ f° r example, the mullein 
• (Agrostemma coronaria) or Sweet 
William, or perennial Phlox, or larkspur. 
Sweet Williams ought to be in every 
garden, and both they and the mullein 
pink self-sow very freely. If a little 
thought and a little (even a very little) 
money is expended in this wav each 
season, there is no limit to the perma¬ 
nent beauty that may be secured in a 
modest home garden. 
THE RU RAL NEW-YORKER 
Savory Dishes Without Meat. 
Hulled Corn Baked With Cream 
Sauce.—Drain and throw away the water 
from a can of hulled corn and rinse 
with cold water; place in a stewpan 
with boiling water to cover; season with 
a teaspoonful of salt and a salt- 
spoonful of pepper; cook slowly twenty 
or thirty minutes and drain. Have pre¬ 
pared three cupfuls of nicely made and 
seasoned cream sauce. Butter a baking 
dish, put in a layer of fine bread crumbs, 
then all the hulled corn and dot with a 
tablespoonful of butter broken into bits, 
Add two or three dashes of paprika, an¬ 
other layer of crumbs, all of the cream 
sauce and carefully cover with a thick 
layer of crumbs. Dot with a dessert¬ 
spoonful of butter, dust with a saltspoon- 
ful of pepper and salt and bake in a mod¬ 
erate oven about twenty minutes. The in¬ 
gredients may be satisfactorily arranged 
in individual baking dishes. Potatoes 
are especially nice prepared in like man¬ 
ner. 
Corn Souffle.—Drain the water from a 
can of corn and stir in three tablespoon¬ 
fuls of melted butter. Beat four eggs 
until very light and turn with a pint of 
rich milk into the corn. Season well, 
beat for several minutes and pour into 
a buttered pudding dish. Cover and bake 
thirty minutes.. Remove the cover, brown 
the souffle and serve directly. 
Cereal Cutlets.—Put a scant half pint 
of milk in double boiler with a table¬ 
spoonful of butter and when it is scalded, 
add enough of some of the patent cereal 
preparations to make a thick paste, 
dredging in a little flour. Turn into a 
saucepan and stir and cook until it 
no longer adheres to the pan. Remove 
from the fire. When cool add two eggs, 
beaten smooth, salt to taste, a little onion 
juice and a third of a cup of finely 
ground nut meats. Mix well, shape into 
small cutlets, egg and crumb and fry 
a nice brown in deep, hot fat. 
Nut Scrapple.—One cup of nut meats 
(any kind your prefer), one quart of 
white beans boiled soft and colandered, 
one cup of fine bread crumbs, one tea¬ 
spoonful salt, and a heaping teaspoon of 
powdered mixed herbs. Melt two table¬ 
spoons butter in a cup of rich milk 
and add when cooled to the mixture. 
Work with the hands and shape in a 
loaf. Place in a deep oiled granite pan. 
Bake for an hour in moderate oven, 
basting as it needs with butter and hot 
water. It may be served hot with the 
sauce which will remain in the pan or it 
may be cooled and served in slices with 
mayonnaise. The last way is better for 
luncheon. It is a fine dish. 
Savory Rice.—Boil one cupful of rice 
in three pints of boiling salted water un¬ 
til the grains are large and soft and 
slightly forked at one end. Drain, rinse 
with cold water and drain again thor- 
oroughly. Melt a tablespoonful of but¬ 
ter in a frying pan, brown a sliced onion 
in this. Remove onion, put in the rice 
and stir with a fork until slightly 
browned. Have hot in another sauce¬ 
pan one cupful of tomato pulp, rubbed 
smooth and seasoned with a saltspoon- 
ful of salt and a good dash each of 
paprika and white pepper. Stir this into 
the browned rice, sprinkle with two 
tablespoonfuls of grated cheese and turn 
into a hot vegetable dish. 
Royal LeatheTRocker 
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Saves Miles of Steps 
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The Koosier Kitchen 
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Six crystal glass spice 
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