Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1919 — Old-Fashioned Flower Garden. [ARTICLE]

Old-Fashioned Flower Garden.

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever,” which can be found in a bed of oldfashioned flowers at a minimum cost. After the soil is prepared, sow the seeds or set out the plants, putting the tall ones like sweet peas, hollyhocks, golden glow and sunflowers in the back. Plant shorter ones in front, such as the marigolds, Japanese popples, sweet Williams and field daisies; in front of these’ still shorter ones, such as petunias, nasturtiums and asters, with pansies, pinks and verbenas in front A border of candy tuft or sweet alyssum is very decorative. With such an arrangement, flowers for the parlor and living room table can be obtained until frost comes. Many a bouquet of beautiful flowers at practically no expense also can find its way into the room of some sick person or to a hospital ward- —Thrift Magazine.