NOTE ON THE GARDEN CUT-OUTS

Dear Girl or Boy:

No doubt you will wish, just as Mary Frances did, to be able to cut flowers every few days from your garden for your mother to use as a “centerpiece” on the dining table, or for your father’s desk, or for your grandmother’s dresser, or to give to some dear friend.

Now, anyone can have a few plants which will bloom at some time or other, but the garden you and Mary Frances have in mind is one which will have flowers blooming from March, through April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and on into November, until killed by frost.

Flowers nearly nine months of the year! Yes, that is quite possible in almost every part of our country—if you study carefully the outlines given on pages [51-62], inclusive.

The first outline gives a list of plants which bloom in the Early Spring. (See Garden Cut-Out [No. 1].)

The second names the plants which bloom in the Early Summer. (See Garden Cut-Out [No. 2].)

The third, the plants which bloom in Mid-Summer. (See Garden Cut-Out [No. 3].)

The fourth, those blooming in Late Summer or Early Autumn. (See Garden Cut-Out [No. 4].)

For instructions for making the Garden Cut-Outs, see [Chapter LXII], page 373.

PICTURE OF MARY FRANCES PLAY HOUSE BEFORE THE CHILDREN PLANTED THE GARDENS
For Directions for Garden Cut-Outs, see [Chapter LXII]

Thirty-seven Hardy Perennials

Aster (Wild)
Alkanet (Anchusa)
Baby’s Breath
Bellflower
Bergamot
Blanket Flower
Bleeding Heart
Campanula
Candytuft
Centaurea
Chrysanthemum
Columbine
Coreopsis
English Daisy
Forget-me-not
Foxglove
Hollyhock
Larkspur
Lupine
Marguerite
Monkshood
Pæony
Pinks— Moss
Hardy
Poppy— Iceland
Oriental
Phlox (Hardy)
Pyrethrum
Poker Plant
Rock Cress
Roses
Sneezewort
Speedwell
Sweet Alyssum (yellow)
Sweet-William
Thoroughwort
Violet and Viola
Wall Flower
Windflower

Twenty Annuals

Eight Bulbous Plants