Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . very lowprices. Look out for them. I happen to knowthat our old and most reputable seedsmen makeonly a reasonable profit on the seed they dealers who cut under in price can onlyafford to do so because they do not exercise thecare and attention which the reliable seedsmandoes in growing his stock, hence their expensesare less. Cheap seed will be found cheap in allsenses of the term. I want to lay special emphasis on the advisa- 114 OF ANNUALS bility of purchasing seed in which each color is byitself. The objection is o
Amateur gardencraft; a book for the home-maker and garden lover . very lowprices. Look out for them. I happen to knowthat our old and most reputable seedsmen makeonly a reasonable profit on the seed they dealers who cut under in price can onlyafford to do so because they do not exercise thecare and attention which the reliable seedsmandoes in growing his stock, hence their expensesare less. Cheap seed will be found cheap in allsenses of the term. I want to lay special emphasis on the advisa- 114 OF ANNUALS bility of purchasing seed in which each color is byitself. The objection is often urged that onepersoH seldom cares to use as many plants of onecolor as can be grown from a package of diflaculty is easily disposed of. Club withyour neighbors, and divide the seed between youwhen it comes. In this way you will secure themost satisfactory results and pay no more foryour seed than you would if you were to buy mixed packages. Grow colors separately fora season and I am quite sure you will never goback to mixed seed. THE BULB GARDEN. VERY lover of flowers shovildhave a garden of bulbs, forthree reasons: First, theybloom so early in the seasonthat one can have flowers atleast six weeks longer thanit is possible to have them ifonly perennial and annual plants are dependedon. Some bulbs come into bloom as soon as thesnow is gone, at the north, to be followed bythose of later habit, and a constant succession ofbloom can be secured by a judicious selectionof Varieties, thus completely tiding over theusually flowerless period between the going ofwinter and the coming of the earlier springflowers. Second, they require but little care,much less than the ordinary plant. Give thema good soil to grow in, and keep weeds and grassfrom encroaching on them, and they will ask noother attention from you, except when, becauseof a multiplication of bulbs, they need to be sepa-rated and reset, which will be about every thirdyear. The work required in doing this is no m
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