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NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER, 1874. 
MY FRONT YARD. 
My front yard, like many other things, liad a small 
beginning, being a piece of meadow situated between 
the road and the house, minus a fence each side. The 
flowers consisted of a few boxes of ten-weeks stock 
and some Begonias, placed on a beehive (no bees in 
it), and was looking their very best when, lo! up 
came our old cow and upset beehive, flowers and all, 
and oh, what a time I did have 
to find my poor plants all 
smothered with dirt; hut I 
succeeded, and replaced them 
hack in their respective places; 
after trimming off broken leaves 
and branches they had to he 
watered and taken into the 
house. Things could not go 
on long in that shape, for 
flowers I must have, so in a 
few days my front yard was 
nicely fenced, by my better 
half, and was about eighty feet 
square, and ploughed and drag- 
ed, and all the lumps of dirt 
that were any size raked off, 
and a walk left of grass from 
the gate to the front door, and a 
flower bed each side the entire 
length, with the exception of 
about ten feet at each end, 
left for walks. The hack of 
the beds was planted with 
Rose hushes, about one yard 
apart, and a root of tall plants 
The Sweet William is very pretty as there is such 
variety of colors; although my garden was large 
there were not many roots of the same color. They 
never suffer from heat, and will endure any amount of 
cold and he green and beautiful in early Spring, if 
covered in the fall with straw or coarse manure. The 
roots increase in size very fast, and can he divided 
every other year; they also hear large quantities of 
seed, and almost always come true to color sown. 
Aquelias are also multiplied by dividing the roots; 
they, like the Sweet William, are of all colors, red, 
white, straw color, pink, all shades of blue and purple, 
double and single, some large and drooping, some the 
bells small and erect. They are very hardy, need no 
covering, and hear abundance of seed. The front of 
the bed was planted to the old-fashioned pink, and the 
next summer it was about one foot wide, and com¬ 
pletely covered with blossoms so beautiful and frag¬ 
rant that they perfumed the whole yard; they were 
the admiration of every one who saw them. I know 
a great many people cannot grow the old-fashioned 
Pink and Sweet William with much success; hut if 
they divide the roots every other year, and in no case 
let them remain longer than three years without 
dividing, and cover them in the fall with a little straw 
or coarse manure, they will have no more failure, hut 
have roots large and thrifty, with abundance of 
flowers. Between those beds and the fence I had a 
large oval bed, about twenty feet long and eight feet 
wide in the centre of the yard, each side. One was 
planted with Tulips and seed of the Phlox Druin- 
inondii between the Tulips, and edged with Dwarf Iris 
(dwarf Flower-de-Luce), so it was a bed of beauty from 
spring until the heavy frosts in the fall. As the Tulips 
and Iris blossom in the spring, by the time they, were 
gone the Phlox Drumniondii was up and covering the 
bed with its beautiful flowers, of almost every shade 
and color. Phlox Drummondii is an annual, and is one 
of our most beautiful flowers. Sow the seed in boxes, 
two or three seeds between each Tulip, then the bed 
is covered with them, the Tulips in straight rows 
across the bed, about eight or ten inches between the 
rows, and the same distance between the roots. I 
always cover my Tulip beds in the fall, just after the 
second or third frost—generally in November-—with 
coarse manure. June Rose. 
between them, such as Spirea, white and pink, Rocket, 
purple and white, Perennial, Lark Spurs, and so forth, 
all Perennials, all perfectly hardy, and enduring our 
cold winters without failure. They can be multiplied 
by dividing the roots. Aquelias and Sweet Williams 
planted in a row through the centi’e, every other root 
Sweet Williams, and each alternate root Aquelias. 
Scene in Woodward’s Gardens, San Francisco, Cal. 
and transplant when about an inch high, just before a 
rain, and they will grow, almost every one.; or have 
the soil in a bed fine, and sow the seed where you 
want them to bloom, putting two or three seeds about 
an inch apart, and ten inches the space between the 
rows, and about ten inches between them. I always 
plant my Phlox half way between the Tulips, putting 
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