A trained horticulturist’s working handbook: what to plant, how to prepare the ground, and how to keep a flower garden going through the year without pretending it is effortless.

Preliminary Considerations

2 pages in this part of Practical Flower Gardening.

Preliminary Considerations

In making a garden the first consideration is the proper selection of a site. Few of us are so favored as to possess all of the necessary…

Preliminary Considerations, Continued

soft and pretty when it is well grown, but unfortunately, in spite of care, it has a habit of dying back at the bottom, giving it a…

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