cks, double, ten-week 1 ft. Various.
(When thinning, only keep the weakest seedlings, as those are the
double ones.)

BIENNIALS.

These, if sown one spring, will not flower the following summer, but do so
the year after.

NAME. LENGTH. COLOUR.

Fox-gloves 3 to 4 ft. White and coloured
(White, most picturesque; all do well in shade; unless seed is required,
cut out main stem, when side shoots will flower.)

Lunaria biennis 1-1/2 to 2 ft. The old "honesty."
(Much prized for its silvery seed-pods.)

Polyanthus 1/2 ft. Mixed colours.
(Admirable for shady places; water well.)

Japanese pinks 1 ft. Deepest crimson to white.
(Fringed petals; a whole bed of this is lovely.)

Sweet Williams 1 ft. Mixed shades.
(Auricula type, the best; there is a novelty, blackish-maroon in shade,
which should be placed amongst some of the crimson varieties.)

Snap-dragons 2 ft. Varied.
(Flower from June to November; eschew reds of a mauve hue.)

Wallflower, "Ruby Gem" 2 ft. Reddish violet.

The seeds of all these, true to name and ripe for germination, may be
obtained from Messrs. Barr, Long Ditton, Surrey, who sell sixpenny packets
of all these kinds; small quantities of the well-known sorts only costing
threepence. This is a =great advantage to owners of small gardens=, as one
does not wish to give 1s. 6d. or 2s. 6d. for perhaps two thousand seeds of
one variety, when only two or three dozen are required. Penny packets of
seeds may be had from the One and All Company at most greengrocer's, and
are really wonderful value for the money.

CHAPTER XIV

Window Boxes

_How to make them--Relation of box to residence they are intended to
adorn--Suitable soil--Window plants for different aspects._

Where gardens are small, one seems to need window boxes more than where
there is land and to spare. They add to the number of one's flowers, and,
if carefully looked after, decidedly =improve the appearance of a house=.
That is a large "If" though, for unkempt boxes only make it look untidy.

=FLOWERS FIRST, BOX SECOND.= Though the tiled sort obtain a good deal of
patronage, nothing really looks much better than boxes covered with virgin
cork, if constantly renewed, for it acts as =a foil to the flow