You will notice that certain names are repeated in several instances. This is only to show the period of bloom, whether early Spring, Summer, or Autumn, or throughout the season. NOTE ON THE GARDEN CUT-OUTS DEAR GIRL OR BOY: No doubt you will wish, just as Mary Frances did, to be able to cut flowers every few days from your garden for your mother to use as a “centerpiece” on the dining table, or for your father’s desk, or for your grandmother’s dresser, or to give to some dear friend. Now, anyone can have a few plants which will bloom at some time or other, but the garden you and Mary Frances have in mind is one which will have flowers blooming from March, through April, May, June, July, August, September, October, and on into November, until killed by frost. Flowers nearly nine months of the year! Yes, that is quite possible in almost every part of our country—if you study carefully the outlines given on pages 51-62, inclusive. The _first_ outline gives a list of plants which bloom in the Early Spring. (See Garden Cut-Out No. 1.) The _second_ names the plants which bloom in the Early Summer. (See Garden Cut-Out No. 2.) The _third_, the plants which bloom in Mid-Summer. (See Garden Cut-Out No. 3.) The _fourth_, those blooming in Late Summer or Early Autumn. (See Garden Cut-Out No. 4.) For instructions for making the Garden Cut-Outs, see Chapter LXII, page 373. [Illustration: PICTURE OF MARY FRANCES PLAY HOUSE BEFORE THE CHILDREN PLANTED THE GARDENS For Directions for Garden Cut-Outs, see Chapter LXII] _Thirty-seven Hardy Perennials_ Aster (Wild) Alkanet (Anchusa) Baby’s Breath Bellflower Bergamot Blanket Flower Bleeding Heart Campanula Candytuft Centaurea Chrysanthemum Columbine Coreopsis English Daisy Forget-me-not Foxglove Hollyhock Larkspur Lupine Marguerite Monkshood Pæony Pinks {Moss {Hardy Poppy {Iceland {Oriental Phlox (Hardy) Pyrethrum Poker Plant Rock Cress Roses Sneezewort Speedwell Sweet Alyssum (yellow) Sweet-William Thoroughwort Violet and Viola Wall Flower Windflower _Twenty Annuals_ Ageratum Cockscomb Cornflower Cosmos Cigar Plant Everlasting Four-o’Clock Garden Geranium Lemon Verbena Nasturtium Petunia Princess Feather Periwinkle Phlox Scarlet Sage Snapdragon Sweet Alyssum (white) Verbena Wild Cucumber Vine Zinnia _Eight Bulbous Plants_ Daffodil Hyacinth Iris Lily of the Valley Madonna Lily Snowdrop Tulip Yellow Day Lily A LETTER ABOUT THE GARDEN CUT-OUTS _Dear Boy or Girl:_