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Make Flowers Your Friends and 
Passers-by judge the occupants of a house 7 only by its 
surroundings. 
A few years ago the back yard was a place better left 
unseen. It was usually piled with rubbish or left bleak 
and barren, and certainly was not a pleasant sight to look 
upon, either from the rear windows or from the street. 
Today it is a place of quiet beauty and peacefulness, 
where we are proud to take our guests. 
There is no soil too rocky or too poor to grow some 
kind of flowers. If you have rocks, make a rock garden. 
If your soil is very poor, this book will tell you the kinds 
of flowers which can be grown on poor soil. It only 
They Will Make Friends For You 
means the scattering of a few little brown or black seeds, 
and in the course of two or three months you will marvel 
at the transformation into a wealth of gay yellows, blues, 
pinks, purples or reds. 
You can change the scenery of your back yard every 
year with annuals. 
Most plants can be divided into two classes, Annuals 
and Perennials. Annuals are one-year plants. The seed is 
sown; the plants bloom, produce seed and die the same 
year. Many of our prettiest garden flowers are annuals. 
They are inexpensive, give a wealth of bloom, are admir¬ 
able for the rented house garden, and are adaptable to 
most soils and climates. 
Amaranthus 
2 to 5 feet. These robust an¬ 
nuals are grown for their bril¬ 
liantly colored foliage. They grow very tall and 
are very effective and showy garden plants, adapt¬ 
ed for centers and backgrounds of flower beds. 
CAUDATUS (Love Lies Bleeding.) 
Has long drooping red spikes. Pkt., 5c 
Antirrhinum (Snapdragon). Height 12 to 24 inches. 
1 Flowers the first year. They are useful 
for cutting and keep fresh a long time. From seed sown 
in the open ground in May, plants will bloom in July and 
August and then continually until frost. 
Coral Red, Bright Red Color with White Throat. Pkt., 5c. 
Queen of the North, Snow White. Pkt., 5c. 
Tall mixed. Pkt., 5c. 
Dwarf mixed. Pkt., 5c. 
Ageratum Mexicanum H . eight , . , . 
e plants are bushy, erect, and 
produce clusters of pretty brush-like blue flowers through¬ 
out the season. They make fine - 
borders. Pkt., 5c 
AlvSSUm Hei 9 ht 6 t0 12 inches. This plant is used for 
* borders, edgings, baskets, pots, rockwork and 
for cutting. Alyssum can be increased from cuttings 
made from strong new side shoots, as well as by division 
of the roots. 
DWARF (Carpet of Snow.) Very small, with pretty white 
flowers. Blooms all summer and fall. Pkt., 5c; oz., 30c. 
SWEET ALYSSUM —Standard variety for borders, win¬ 
dow boxes, masses, etc. It is of trailing habit, bearing 
many fragrant white flowers. Pkt., 5c; oz., 25c. 
TRICOLOR (Joseph's Coat.) The inner foliage is black 
and bronze, tipped with green, and the outer foliage is 
bright red and yellow. This plant is very _, 
attractive. Pkt., 5c 
CRUENTUS. Bears 
dark red feathery flow¬ 
ers. Very 
hardy. Pkt., 5c 
ASTERS 
The Aster is one of 
the most satisfactory of 
the annual flowering 
plants. It has a great 
variety of size and color 
and its season of bloom 
makes it valuable for 
cut flowers. The dwarf 
varieties lend them¬ 
selves to close planting 
for cut flowers, while 
the tall varieties are 
well adapted where 
careless effects are de¬ 
sired. 
Sweet Alyssum—Used a. o. Bordei. 
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