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care, blooming when other flowers do not. They form 
a border for the beds of other flowers. A rose bed may 
be filled in with petunias, phlox, daisies or asters, to 
furnish a variety of flowers. (Figure 141.) 
Fig. 139.— The germination of seeds. Small seeds are planted upon the 
surface and covered with a wet cloth. They soon germinate. The seedlings 
may be transplanted as soon as they are well started. 
Shrubs supply a background for our picture. The 
space behind a building may be transformed into a 
beautiful setting by planting shrubs which flower at 
different times. Spirea and syringa are low shrubs which 
produce an abundance of flowers very early in the 
