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growth, and plentifully produces daisy-like flowers with large, 
open heads. Colors are gold, yellow, red or golden yellow with 
bronze centers. 
Gypsophilla, or Baby’s 
Breath. — The annual sort 
produces within six weeks 
from sowing a cloud of 
feathery blooms, either of 
pink or white. The flowers 
themselves are quite small, 
but are borne on tiny, thin 
stems above grass-like fo¬ 
liage. Repeated sowings 
will keep a bed in bloom for 
most of the season. 
Love - in - a - Mist. — The 
flowers are somewhat like 
grass pinks, but usually of 
a blue color and with finely 
cut, moss-like foliage. An 
old-fashioned favorite: 
flowers white, blue or yel¬ 
low. 
Marigolds.—These well- 
known orange and yellow 
and bronze flowers are 
most effective in the fall, 
and add color when much 
other bloom is past. They 
may be had in tall or dwarf 
sorts (the former, the Afri¬ 
can varieties ; the latter, the 
French). The plants like 
sun and bloom for a long 
season. 
Mignonette.—This plant is chiefly desired for its fragrance, as 
the small, inconspicuous flowers are not particularly attractive ex¬ 
cept indoors in combination with other cut blooms. Sowings are 
made at periods of about a week, as the plants do not last long, 
and in this way the season may be extended. 
Nasturtiums. — If you do 
nothing else, at least plant 
the nasturtiums. There is 
scarcely a use about the 
new country place to which 
it may not be put. The 
dwarfed forms are particu¬ 
larly attractive as borders 
or coverings for the bare 
lattice work beneath the 
porch. Climbing varieties 
completely cover ugly 
fences, objects that may 
not be removed from the 
lawn, or they may be 
trained high up a wall or 
lattice. Of late years the 
flowers may be had in a 
great variety o f really 
beautiful blooms, and the 
double forms can give con¬ 
siderable variety. 
Pansies.—Pansies m a y 
be sown early in June in 
the seed bed, and if care is 
given them will be very 
satisfactory for fall. 
Phlox Drummondi . — The 
annual phlox with its bril¬ 
liantly colored and varie¬ 
gated blossoms has a re¬ 
markable range of colors. 
You have a good chance to 
get late summer effect from June planting. 
Portulaca . — Another favorite of the old-fashioned garden, and 
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Don’t make circular beds of geraniums or cannas in the front yard. Such an arrangement 
as this may be achieved by plants set out early in June and succeeded by the blossoms 
which grow from seed 
An arbor or pergola may be made into a shady bower by the use of such vines as 
Japanese hop and Kudzu, which may be set out early in the summer 
Geraniums making such a border as this placed before a hedge and combined with 
alyssum are ever so much more satisfactory than stiff bedding arrangements 
