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The Flower Garden

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The Flower Garden

Ida Dandridge Bennett

248 pages~4 hr 56 min read55 chapters$4.99
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Where should the beds go, and just what should fill them? Ida Bennett walks the gardener through laying out and arranging a flower garden, from bold foliage beds to graceful borders of ornamental grasses. Practical, encouraging, and full of tested plans and measurements. Design a flower garden that blooms beautifully all season long.

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55 chapters

  1. 1THE FLOWER GARDEN
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3PLATES
  4. 4Chapter ONE The Location and Arrangement of the Garden
  5. 5For Laying Out the Beds
  6. 6For a Twelve-foot Foliage-bed
  7. 7Another Twelve-foot Bed
  8. 8Nine-foot Bed
  9. 9Nine-foot Bed
  10. 10Twelve-foot Bed
  11. 11Nine-foot Bed of Ornamental Grasses
  12. 12Eight-foot Bed
  13. 13Chapter TWO Soils
  14. 14Chapter THREE Fertilisers
  15. 15Chapter FOUR The Hotbed, Cold-Frame and Sand-box
  16. 16Chapter FIVE Purchasing of Seeds
  17. 17Chapter SIX Starting Seeds in Flats
  18. 18Chapter SEVEN Transplanting and Repotting

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