“Hello there. This is Leon (La-un), Your 
Gardening Girl Friend.” If you live: within a 
listening distance of Radio Station KLWN, 
Lawrence, Kansas, that opening line may be 
familiar to you, and if so, you will know com- 
ments on gardening are to follow. Since these 
programs are sponsored by The Barteldes Seed 
Co. some of the ideas and suggestions given 
on the air the past season are being repeated 
here. 
I am not a professional gardener, just a gal 
that likes to dig, and after having spent some 
years at that hobby have learned a few things: 
Here’s hoping that by sharing some of that 
experience with you, it may help make your 
gardening a little easier and more successful. 
If any of you readers have suggestions or ques- 
tions along this line, I will be glad to hear 
from you. Please address all mail to Leon, 
Your Gardening Girl Friend. Radio Station 
KLWN, Lawrence, Kansas. 
To the interested gardeners, spring is the 
time of anticipation, whether they have owned 
their home long enough to have an established 
garden, or the new home owner with plans 
they hope to see materialize. It might be a 
renter, who feels it scarcely worth their while 
to go in for perennials, yet wants as colorful 
a flower border as can possibly be accom- 
plished with annuals. 
While waiting for it to be warm enough to 
do actual work in the flower borders, do every- 
thing possible to speed that work once it is 
started. An early start helps the gardener to 
stay abreast with the chores all summer. 
One of the first things to do is clean and 
sharpen all garden tools. Make a _ definite 
place where they are to be put when not in 
use. Put a large can of sand in which some 
old motor oil has been poured, close to the tool 
storage and press the tools up and down in 
this several times after each use. The sand 
will clean the tools and the oil will prevent 
them rusting and help to maintain their sharp 
edge. Tool handles painted red, yellow, or 
some bright color of your own design, are 
easier identified or located in the grass where 
they are left after using. Do try to form the 
A—Annual. B—Biennial. P—Peren- 
nial. Culture 1, 2, 3, 4. 
A-1 means Annual and Culture 1. 
FLOWERS 
ALYSSUM A-1 
(Height 6 to 12 inches.) This plant is used for borders, edgings, baskets, pots, 
rock-work and for cutting. 
Dwarf (Carpet of Snow). Very small, with pretty white flowers. Blooms all summer and 
fall. Pkt., 10c. 
Sweet Alyssum. Standard variety for borders, window boxes, masses, ete. It is of 
trailing habit, bearing many fragrant white flowers. Pkt., 10c. 
AGERATUM MEXICANUM. A-1 Annual. (Height 12 inches.) The plants are bushy, 
erect, and produce clusters of pretty bush-like blue flowers throughout the season. 
They make fine borders. Pkt., 10c. 
AMARANTHUS A-1 
(2 to 5 feet.) These robust annuals are grown for the brilliantly colored foliage. 
They grow very tall and are very effective and showy garden plants, adapted for 
centers and backgrounds of flower béds. 
Caudatus (Love Lies Bleeding). Has long drooping red spikes. Pkt., 10c. 
Tricolor (Joseph’s Coat). The inner foliage is black and bronze, tipped with green, and 
the outer foliage is bright red and yellow. Pkt., 10c. 
Cruentus. Bears dark red feathery flowers. Very hardy. Pkt., 10c. 
ANTIRRHINUM A-1 (Snapdragon). (Height 12 to 24 inches.) Flowers the first season. 
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., 10c. 
Queen of the North. Snow White. Pkt., 10c. 
Tall Mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
Dwarf Mixed. Pkt., 10c. 
ASPARAGUS FERN (Plumosus Nanus). Feathery foliage; used for hanging baskets. 
Pkt., (15 seeds), 15c. House plant. 
ASTERS A-1 
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 themselves to close planting for cut flow- 
ers, while the tall varieties are well adapted where careless effects are desired. 
Giant Aster. Their immense size, their beauty and their long, sturdy stems will give 
them the first place among Asters. Mixed colors, Pkt., 20c. 
Giant Crego Aster. These flowers are of immense size and horne on long stems, have 
appearance of Chrysanthemums; 30 inches high and bear an abundance of flowers 
during August and September. Pink, White, Lavender, Blue, Red, Purple, Mixed. 
Pkt., 10c. 
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Culture 1: Annuals—Sow seed in 
flats inside for transplanting later, 
or outside after danger of frost. 
Seed may be sown where plants 
are to bloom and thinned to 18 to 
24 inches (transplant the seedlings 
taken out), or it may or may not 
be planted in rows for easier care 
and transplanted later into flower 
border. Annuals should have sun 
at least half days. 
Culture 2: Annuals that reseed, 
differ in different localities. May 
be planted in fall or early spring, 
as cold does not affect germina- 
tion. All annuals can be planted 
over tulip and similar bulbs as 
their shallow root system will not 
be detrimental to the bulb. Annual 
plants can be used successfully to 
cover bulb foliage while curing. 
Culture 3. Biennials can be plant- 
ed in either open ground or the bor- 
der and thinner. May be planted 
any time from late spring to early 
fall. Our dry summers may burn 
out the new plants unless protected 
and kept watered. The new plants 
should be mulched to prevent seri- 
ous loss. 
Culture 4: Perennials gan: be 
planted in cold frames any time 
and when the new plants are large 
enough, transplant to the flower 
border. New plants put in the fall 
should be mulched the first winter. 
Plant perennial seed in open 
ground before August, so plants 
will have a better chance winter- 
ing over (with mulch). Some pe- 
rennials do very well in shade. 
Columbine, Mertensia, Bleeding 
Heart and Violets are a few of 
these. 
