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Title: Dreer's garden book 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs Fruit Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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c A MPM AE ND UI LU AM OR CANTERBURY BKI.1^. Mrs. Ely, author of A Womans Hardy Garden, says; The seeds should be sown by mid-April, in finely pre-pared, rich soil—the colors in separate rows—and if theweather is dry, they should be given a thorough wateringlate every afternoon. By the 15th of July the little plantsshould be transplanted, either to the places where they areto bloom the following summer, or else they may be set outtemporarily in rows about a foot apart, the plants eight inchesapart, and finally transplanted early in October. Some ever-green branches, or a little straw or coarse hay, thrown overthem when the ground begins to freeze, makes all the win-ter covering these plants require. In the spring a little finemanure and some bonemeal should be dug about each plant,and the stalks of bloom, which, if well cared for, will benearly three feet in height, should be staked. If the flowersare cut immediately upon fading, the period of bloomingcan be prolonged to about six

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