There is a plant food for house plants which is sold by dealers. One teaspoonful dug into the earth once in two weeks is very beneficial to their growth.
[CHAPTER LX]
Garden Color-Pictures
MOTHER NATURE never makes a mistake if left to her own choice of colors.
Indeed, she is a real color artist. What could be lovelier than the purple of the New England aster, near the lavender of the Joe Pye weed, with an interlacing of wild carrot and yarrow; then, not too near, the dangling orange jewel weed, and a little farther away, the brown cat-tail-all set in a green frame, in the soft light of the dove blue of the sky?
That is just one of Mother Nature’s color-pictures. If you watch her many pictures, you will learn that—
Flowers in masses are more beautiful than in design.