. Making home profitable . is one ofthe most charming of the tall blue flowers andcomes also in white, and blue-white mixed) ; larkspur;Chinese bellflower (large bell-shaped flowers of steelblue, white and violet); heliotrope and marshmallows(pink, rose colour, white with crimson spots, andgolden yellow with maroon centres)—these areamongst the most valuable of the first-year bloomers,for they flower all through the summer. Three ofthe most fragrant annuals are sweet tobacco, sweetsultan and mignonette. Sweet-williams are such old favourites, and are somulticoloured that I have always been tha
. Making home profitable . is one ofthe most charming of the tall blue flowers andcomes also in white, and blue-white mixed) ; larkspur;Chinese bellflower (large bell-shaped flowers of steelblue, white and violet); heliotrope and marshmallows(pink, rose colour, white with crimson spots, andgolden yellow with maroon centres)—these areamongst the most valuable of the first-year bloomers,for they flower all through the summer. Three ofthe most fragrant annuals are sweet tobacco, sweetsultan and mignonette. Sweet-williams are such old favourites, and are somulticoloured that I have always been thankful thatthey flowered the first season. Meadow-sweet — orgoats-beard, as it is often called — is white and fra-grant. Blanket-flower grows about two feet high,and has most gorgeous flowers, dark velvety brownmarked with blotches of crimson. Of course, all thevarieties suggested for early house-culture should alsobe sown in the open ground in June to produce aplentiful supply of strong plants for the JUNE ROSES THE first luxury we allowed ourselves on thefarm was a collection of roses. We had putaside a sum of money for some necessary re-pairs, and when they were completed there were sixdollars left, which we agreed to spend on the dollar went for perennial seeds, another for wis-taria root. The remaining four were devoted toroses. We sent for an advertised collection of hardyroses, consisting of six two-year-old plants for onedollar and twenty cents, two Crimson Ramblers atfifty cents each and two Dorothy Perkins at fiftycents apiece, a collection for winter forcing, whichwere only little seedlings, and cost forty , a two-year-old moss rose was added, whichalso cost forty cents. Since that time, several two-year-olds of specially desired varieties have beenbought, but the purchases made with that four dollarsreally constituted the stock from which we have popu-lated our own and many other gardens. The first year the Dorothy Perkins
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