WHAT TO PLANT Now, Mary Frances, I have really planned a delightful landscape flower garden for you to plant in front of your play house, and a wonderfully useful vegetable garden for the back of the play house; but before I give you that outline, I am going to pretend that you are a very little girl, and I will give you a list, just as our teacher handed it to us. I have it here: GARDEN FOR LITTLE FOLKS 1. Plan out the garden; that is, make a list of what you wish to plant. 2. Draw a picture map of your garden, marking the space where each different kind of flower or vegetable is to be planted. 3. Remember that low-growing plants should be placed in the foreground (front part) of the garden, and tall-growing plants in the background. 4. Order the plants or seeds. 5. Get the ground ready. (See Chapter XIV.) 6. Now begin to plant, following instructions in Chapter XV. If space for your garden is about 10 x 15 ft. it would be delightful to plant it as shown by the picture-map drawn here. GARDEN FOR LITTLE FOLKS—10X15 FEET [Illustration: (.) Bulbs. 2. Iris (blue). 3. Bleeding Hearts. 4. Pyrethrums. 5. Sweet William. 6. Phlox. 7. Eupatorium. 8. Coreopsis. 9. Gaillardia. 10. Chrysanthemums. 11A, 11B, 11C. Roses. 12. Hardy Asters. 13. Iceland Poppies. 14. Cosmos (not to be given a permanent place in garden; it may be used, however, as a filler between Hardy Perennials). 15. Alyssum. 16. Nasturtiums.] Plant Daffodils and Tulips between Hardy Perennials as indicated on plan with dots. Now, for an— EXPLANATION OF THE LITTLE FOLKS FLOWER GARDEN FOUR HARDY BULBS FOR LITTLE FOLKS GARDEN These bulbs should be planted in late October or early November. They bloom in the early Spring and then die down, to come up the next Spring.