Show bicentennial flower gardens this Is the time of year to think about planting flower gardens every back yard every strip of fertile tile soil boll Is a potential flower garde ei and may be made to bloom in honor of the father of ills coun tty in this bicentennial year even as little as fifty cents worth of seeds will plant a garden anyone may be proud of and which will given joy to hundred hundreds of passersby in a nationwide nation wide broad broadcast cut at 1 30 p in thursday march lath the secretary of agriculture arthur M hyde officially opened the bicentennial flower garden campaign which Is sponsored by the united states george washington bicentennial commission commissi OrL the united states marine band orchestra played a program of appropriate music and congressman sol bloom associate director of the commis sion slon explained the proposed plan which Is to havo have every vacant space all over the country bloom with flowers this summer in honor of tits ti ts bicentennial year the me garden cluba erf of america are cooperating in this plan as well as school garden cluba clubs and other floral the bicentennial committee tn in each state mate Is promoting interest ui in planting flower flowers Is I 1 honor lionor of this great celebration atie united mat states department part ment of Agriculture is Ie cooperating also and horticultural experts attached to colleges tn in each state are doing effective work ork in promoting this activity through the schools of each state zu in consequence hundreds of amateur gardeners will plant col flowers annuals and perennials which were famular familiar in the time of george washington and which will bloom each year as a permanent memorial to his memory memy y the tits united states george washington bicentennial Comm commission isdoll has seem secured seemed ed from the Dep department artmont of agriculture 8 a list of flowers which were familiar in Colon colonial lal days which win be particularly adaptable to tills tiu kind of celebration for bright sunshine with plenty of fertility and bolst moisture over 4 feet high castor bean cosmos sunflower sorghum fete ilta milo and indian corn com over 3 feet josephs coat love akes bleeding feather cockscomb orange orge sunflower princess feather and summer cypress 30 acnes cornflower larkspur scab losa loss scarlet sage strawflower and zinnia 24 inches balsam calliopsis china aster summer chrysanthemum coneflower conet lower four o clock gaIll gaillardia ardla aztec marigold poppy snapdragon triad snow on the 18 inches jobs tears mignonette and stock 13 12 inches calendula california poppy calliopsis candytuft french marigold rt artun petunia un drummond Drum mand phlox pink and iceland poppy under 12 i inches cock cockscomb semb lobel ta 1 porty toca 1 sweet alys suzn and aa verbena OF EASIEST CULTURE under ordinary garden conditions over 4 fed feet sunflower about 3 feet jo belha coat love lies bleeding hell and princes feather about 30 inches cornflower strawflower lower and zinnia about 4 inches callio calliope call lops ps s er gaillardia marigold and snow sno on the abbat 13 indies inches mignonette about 12 inches cape farigola cult ornia poppy balsam sandy sanay tuu tuft petunia drummond Drum nond phlox pink dwarf and sweet alyssum ON ligier FERTILE BOIL SOIL marigold mar leold drummond and ON LIGHT SOIL NOT TOO RICH cockscomb and feat tier cockscomb OM ou POOR poon BOIL SOIL lovelies love lies bleeding joseph coat Cape marigold go godetta detla dwart nasturtium graw pink alyssum garden balsam and calliopsis IM IN PARTIAL SHADE basket flower sweet sultan drummond phlox pansy sweet arssum lupine and torget forget denof me not nEPP TO nicil SOIL castor bean scarlet sage balkans and china aster TO CUT poil rort rose everlasting featherer cockscomb globe amaranth and strawflower some plants that may be sown fn n beds in the open ground and latr later lat r transplanted to their per manert locations arc are ageratum ARe ratum calendula calU call topsIA china aster clarkia cockscomb dahlia ga gaillan illar um zodelia lobelia mignonette pansy pink snapdragon stock and zinnia most ot of these may be sown earlier in a hotbed or cold frame an athus be made to bloom earlier bib |