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How the Garden Grew

Chapter 13: THE END
By Maud Maryon
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The narrator recounts transforming a neglected flower garden through seasonal attention, organized into winter, spring, summer, and autumn, blending practical horticultural advice with personal anecdotes. She learns plant identification and propagation, experiments with bulbs and borders, and draws on help and hindrance from a local gardener, a reverend, his curate, and a skilled neighbor. The account emphasizes observing plants' rhythms, adapting techniques to local conditions, and the pleasures and small domestic dramas that accompany cultivating flowers across the year.

Nasturtium, 55, 56, 101, 105, 187

Nicotina, 161

'OLD MAN'S BEARD,' 37

PANSIES, 53

Papaver, see Poppy

Penstemons, 57, 84, 106, 183, 196, 234, 238

Peonies, 243

Perennials, 106

Pergola, 204, 210

Phlox, 54, 82, 88, 183, 195, 233;
—annual, 176

Plantains, 22, 239

Polyanthus, 53, 57, 100, 106, 132, 224, 231

Poppies, Californian, 57, 177;
—Iceland, 57, 147, 196, 235;
—Oriental, 106, 211, 234;
—Shirley, 57, 66, 113, 150, 171

Primroses, 72, 248

ROCKET, 236

Roses, 74;
—Crimson Rambler, 74, 128, 214;
—Gloire de Dijon, 74, 129, 187, 213;
—Reine Marie Hortense, 74, 128;
—William Allen Richardson, 74, 128, 214;
—cutting, 77;
—Suckers, 79

Rudbeckias, 195

SAINT-FOIN, 151

Salpiglosis, 57, 175

Salvias, 184

Scabious, 57, 142, 183

Scillas, 28, 40, 51

Sea-holly, 236

Silene, 105, 164, 213

Snapdragons, see Antirrhinums

Snowdrops, 28, 40, 51

Solomon's Seal, 235

Spiræa, 82, 233

Stocks, 53, 57, 106, 143, 183

Sunflowers, 56, 105, 182, 194, 196, 211, 233;
—Rigidus, 233;
—Soleil d'Or, 233

Sweet Peas, 56, 65, 107, 150, 174, 193

Sweet-William, 53, 56, 105, 164, 183, 185, 212, 222, 235

Syringa, 121

TAGETES, 55, 57, 101, 142

Thinning plants, 113, 163

Thistle, purple, 196, 236

Tritoma, 85, 236

Tritonia, 165

Tropoeolum, 55

Tulips, 81, 130, 132, 212, 220, 238

Turk's Head, 183, 185, 235

VALERIAN, 182, 185, 232

Verbena, 57

Viola, 53, 57, 60, 131, 238

Violets, 76, 80, 220

Virginian Creeper, 213

WALL-FLOWER, 53, 105, 164, 212, 220

Wisteria, 214

ZINNIA, 56, 57, 183, 221

THE END