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Show HOME GARDEN FLOWERS What to Grow to Beautify Your Home and Lawn. Old-Fashloned Posies May Be Relied Upon to Produce; Will Add Beauty to Premises. When' making plans for the homo vegetable garden all the emphasis should not be placed Upon vegetables, hut provision should be made for planting plant-ing n few flowers as well. Where a cottage and a luwn nro Included In the general scheme the flowers can often bo arranged around the foundation of tho house, or In a bed separating tho lawn either from a neighboring property or from the vegetnble garden. Old fashioned zinnia, petunia, bachelor's button, cockscomb, scarlet sage, and cosmos are among the most easily cultivated flowers nnd go u long wuy toward brightening up the general appearance of the home surroundings. Where spnee will permit n flower garden consisting of dahlias, asters, ennus, roses, gladioli, and various other flowering plants thnt will ndd color and beauty to the place, and at the same" time furnish cut flowers for the house, Is highly desirable. From the standpoint of economy, the plantings around the foundations of tho house should, us a rule, be made of permanent low-growing shrubbery, mainly thnt which grows native In the locality, and the annual flowering plants given a ploco In connection with The Daisy The American Legion's Official Flower. tho pirden proper or In a border. It Is urd, however, by tlie United Stntos Department of Agriculture thnt more nttentloii be given to Improvement of home surroundings, Including the care of a good lawn and flowers. |
