HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
April, 
1912 
the seed in each pot and also the percent¬ 
age of losses. Doing this will give a still 
further line on what you may expect from 
the samples of seed submitted. As on the 
success of the sowing on your grounds 
will depend the excellence of the turf, no 
effort should be spared to settle the ques¬ 
tion of what seed to use. 
System in the Vegetable and Flower 
Garden 
{Continued from page 36) 
in a border, or long narrow bed only a 
few feet wide. It should be wide enough, 
however, so that grass roots will not steal 
all the plant food in it. Three to five feet 
is the usual width; and it is a good plan 
to take the spade, or “edger,” and cut 
down a foot or so all along the edges, say 
once a month, to cut off intruding roots 
of all kinds. 
A good plan is to have the hardy pe¬ 
rennials, which as a rule grow taller than 
the annuals, in the back part of the bor¬ 
der, with a strip at the front for annuals. 
Edgings are usually made of low-grow¬ 
ing, free-flowering plants of a single color 
—although exceptions to this rule often 
produce very striking and attractive re¬ 
sults. The quick-growing annuals, if 
sown when the beds or borders are plant¬ 
ed, will be in flower in time to use for 
this purpose. Edgings are used for both 
beds and borders, and if judiciously chosen 
add very greatly to the beauty and finish 
of the flower gardens. 
Beds for flowers are made in all sorts 
of shapes and sizes, and placed in all 
sorts of situations, but the old-fashioned 
sorts of carpet bed, design beds and circu¬ 
lar beds with rows of different and con¬ 
trasting colored flowers are fortunately 
giving place to more simple and artistic 
uses. Flowers used in masses are both 
more effective and more natural, and a 
little care used in planning will assure 
harmonious colors and succession of 
bloom until after frost. 
If one has but a few dollars to spend 
for the beautifying of the grounds, it can¬ 
not be better used than in getting seeds of 
choice sorts of the old favorite flowers, 
a great many of which, in the last few 
years, have been very greatly improved. 
Care will be required in getting them 
safely started; many of them, after that, 
grow like weeds, and yield a profuse 
harvest of beauty and joy all summer long. 
The Perennial Garden from Seed 
{Continued from page 39) 
crape, add to the beauty of this variety. 
The plant itself, however, is not nearly so 
vigorous or symmetrical as the datum 
larkspur and its hybrids. A pleasing 
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