. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. THE FLOWER GARDEN 157. EMOVE THE MULCH IN EARLY SPRING AND CAREFULLY LOOSEN UP THE TOP SOIL leave out doubtful shades that are likely to clash— magentas, reddish-purples^ bluish-reds, etc.; have only pure reds, pinks, blues and white; put yellows away somewhere by themselves—and you can not help but have harmony in the border. Keep out weeds, keep the soil loose and mellow. Late each fall apply a mulch of strawy manure; remove the coarser parts of the mulch in the early spring, c
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. Gardening; Vegetable gardening. THE FLOWER GARDEN 157. EMOVE THE MULCH IN EARLY SPRING AND CAREFULLY LOOSEN UP THE TOP SOIL leave out doubtful shades that are likely to clash— magentas, reddish-purples^ bluish-reds, etc.; have only pure reds, pinks, blues and white; put yellows away somewhere by themselves—and you can not help but have harmony in the border. Keep out weeds, keep the soil loose and mellow. Late each fall apply a mulch of strawy manure; remove the coarser parts of the mulch in the early spring, carefully loosen up the surface soil with a hoe and a narrow eight-tooth rake, and apply a sprinkle of bone meal. Prepare the border for planting by spading it deeply (a foot at least) and working in a quantity of well-rotted manure and some bone meal. In regard to setting out plants, J. T. Lovett says: "Some persons prefer autumn planting and others claim spring to be the better season. As a matter of fact, neither spring nor fall is to be pre- ferred for the entire list of varieties. Beyond ques- tion pceony, phlox, dicentra, day lily, etc., make the best growth when planted in autumn; while Japanese anemone, foxglove, Canterbury bells, hollyhock, sweet-william and some others frequently perish the first winter if planted in the ; Flowering Shrubs.—Somewhere in the garden there should be at least a few of the hardy shrubs to supplement the perennial plants already mentioned. They may be set along the back line of the flower border; or may be set in a border or bed by them-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Biggle, Jacob. Philadelphia, W. Atkinson Co. , 1912
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