Chapter XV.

If space for your garden is about 10 x 15 ft. it would be delightful to plant it as shown by the picture-map drawn here.

GARDEN FOR LITTLE FOLKS—10X15 FEET

Plant Daffodils and Tulips between Hardy Perennials as indicated on plan with dots.

Now, for an—

EXPLANATION

OF

THE LITTLE FOLKS FLOWER GARDEN

FOUR HARDY BULBS FOR LITTLE FOLKS GARDEN

These bulbs should be planted in late October or early November. They bloom in the early Spring and then die down, to come up the next Spring.

-----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+-------------- No. | | | | on | No. of Flowers | How Deep | | Average Map. | to Plant. | to Plant. | Color. | Price. -----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+-------------- (.) | 6 Emperor Daffodils. | 4 inches. | Yellow. |25c for ½ doz. -----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+-------------- (.) | 6 Cottage Garden | 4 inches. |All colors.|15c for ½ doz. | Tulips, called also | | | | May-flowering Tulips. | | | -----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+-------------- (.) | 6 Darwin Tulips. | 4 inches. |All colors.|15c for ½ doz. | Bloom later than | | | | “Cottage Garden” | | | | Tulips; grow taller. | | | -----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+-------------- (2) | 6 German Iris roots, | 4 inches. |Blue, |50c for ½ doz. | called also | |purple, | | “Blue Flags.” | |and yellow.| -----+-------------------------+-----------+-----------+--------------

HARDY PERENNIALS

The plants whose roots live on from season to season, or “winter over,” and come up every Spring, are called Hardy Perennials.

The plants whose roots die in the Fall, and do not “winter over,” are called Annuals.

When a boy or a girl undertakes to start a flower garden, how much more desirable it seems to plant, for the most part, Hardy Perennials, which will “come up” the next Summer and the next, and so on for years; instead of Annuals, the seeds of which must be sowed every Spring.

Of course, the seeds of Hardy Perennials may be sowed in the Spring, but _Hardy Perennial plants raised from seeds, seldom bloom until the next year after the seeds are planted_.