Show c 1 rc are emd am A 4 S 9 rall tk airl 1 A 44 at V t W 4 4 effective portra make makes for beauty HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL by BETTY look out for dahlias kahlias dah lias gladiolus and other rank growing crowing plant plants that are likely to be blown down don by the wind and stake them pick the pansies and nasturtium nasturtiums every day it you want to have plenty of bloom N hen the lilacs have finished bloom ins ing all the aeed need clusters should be cut away it Is fatal tatal to some plants to fertilize them with rich manures when the ground Is very dry never allow rosca roses to remain en on the bush until the petals fall tall it the geed Is allowed to develop on the lilac it generally has few flowers except every other year the best way to kill weeds Is to to pull them up by hand do not allow them to set get ahead of you lock look out for the red bug and other enemies of the rose an excellent spray for the rose bushes Is to made of one halt pound of laundry soap melted in hot water to which Is added ono one cupful of kero sene when this cornea comes to a boll use about one part to fifteen parts of wa ter keep the moisture in your soil around your plants by applying road dust about the roots during the hot and weather lawn clippings make an excellent mulch for bushes shrubs and large plants tea roses like to have the soil about their roots cool and moist grass clipping clippings are good for that purpose spread the girss over the bed to a depth of two or three inches As soon as an it withers work it into the soil oil when as it decays it wll will act as an a fertilizer apply fresh clippings clip pinga HELPS IM IN FLOWER GROWING dont dent drain the soil beffie the moisture of winter and spring baa has drained from it so that it will pulverize perfectly it the soil drops from the spade in moist soggy lumps be sure it Is not ready to work aa As the we frost leaves the soil dig in the manure mulch placed last fall about the shrubs rosea roses and hardy perennials it there be no winter mulch about such plants be sure to apply some kind of fertilizer to theu thela A good coat of bone meal in the absence of well rotted manure will serve scatter it about the base of the plants after the soil Is to stirred and let the rain min drive it to the roots dig a rip 16 15 or 18 inches vide wide across the bed or border and then rake it beginning at the bottom of the trench and fining the soil from the subsoil to continue continuo this throughout the length of the bed and I 1 len ten you will have worked the soil perfectly ro insure a succession eucce seton ot of blooming periods per lode do not eow flow all your annuals at the same time nor not your blooming bulbe bulbs walt two or three weeke weeks start cosmos as a early aa as possible 1 and at the end of april plant in th tho open two to four I 1 act apart for or they need plenty of room they want light rich foil soil and can stand a areat great deal of pinching bick to keep them stocky it if is aid said that the quickest growing hardy vine Is 18 the kudzu vine lana which often grows grow 40 feet in a season it needs winter protection as it sometimes win ter kills juet just as soon as the frost ie Is gone plant the madeira Ala delra vine it ts to propagated by tubers it grows groo rapidly has bag thick waxy leaves and its flowers drifts of creamy snow coer the plant when in n bloom the finest ox ex ample of what this plant can do was seen on a second story porch turning a prosaic second story atory flat porch into a juliet bower of beauty give the wild grape grave a place about the home it Is so hardy and its now flow era so sweet if you have a dry bare spot that 9 gets ets sun all day seed geed it to laccas they will beat weed seeds needs growing transplanting SEEDLINGS As soon as seedlings can be convent antly band bandied led transplant in pots or boxes give them plenty of room oa on all sides Trana plaiting carefully by band Is the way professional gardeners do their transplanting but a forked tick stick can be b used if it carefully bandied from the bright sun for a few das and water carefully it the weather Is advanced give the newly transplanted plants plenty of air la in this way they are hardened off until they will be able to stand full ex exposure in the open ground care must be ox ex excised with alt all plants reproved rei ret roved from conservatories conserva tories hotbeds or from plants raised in boxes or pots la in the hours WHEN THERES A DROUGHT use the boo more the hose less A duet mulch Is a better aid in dry weather than tho the artificial shower if it you must use a watering can do it with a will give enough water that the moisture will penetrate to the boota instead of coaxing them to the surface there to be the more susceptible to a protracted drought t IN LONG ROWS ily by planting everything in lone long rows across the entire length of the gar den planting all the things that require a whole season to mature on one on side all the second crop vegetables will be la in a compact plat on the other side of the garden plat r I 1 00 11 1 t A charming Cham ilni place in miniatures Minia tureA girls Plo playhouse Pley heu |