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The Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden People

Chapter 30: CHAPTER VIII Early Summer Garden
By Jane Eayre Fryer
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A young girl named Mary Frances and her brother Billy learn gardening through playful episodes in which anthropomorphic garden folk—roosters, fairies, and other helpers—explain soil preparation, planting seeds and bulbs, parts of flowers, pollination, pest remedies, and care for vegetables, annuals, perennials, and roses. Interwoven with the narrative are clear, practical instructions, lists of recommended plants for children, methods for making hotbeds, and a month-by-month outline to guide seasonal garden work.

CHAPTER VIII
Early Summer Garden

LIST No. 2
Eleven Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early Summer

As pictured in the Mary Frances Garden Cut-Out No. 2.
Common Name.      Botanical Name.      Remarks.      Height.     
Yellow Alyssum.* A-lys-sum Sax-a-tile.
See List No. 1 for description.
 12 inches.
Columbine. A-qui-le-gi-a.
Airy, graceful plants, with spurred flowers, in red, blue, violet, white, yellow. Buy the seed of “Long Spurred Hybrids.”
 18-24 inches.
German Iris (“Blue Flags”).
I-ris Ger-man-i-ca.
Lavender, purple, yellow, white.
“Corm” roots which “winter over” and take care of themselves, “coming” up every Spring in increased numbers.
 24-30 inches.
Lily of the Valley. Con-val-la-ria.
Sweet-scented tiny white bells.
Buy clumps and roots in Spring or Fall.
6 inches.
Alkanet or Bugloss. An-chu-sa I-tal-i-ca.
Buy “Dropmore” variety.
Blue flowers.
Buy the plants.
 36 inches.
Lupines. Lu-pi-nus.
Varieties in blue, white, pink.
24-28 inches.
Tufted Pansies.* Vi-o-la Cor-nu-ti.
Sow seed early.
Resemble pansies, not so large; but bloom all Summer.
 5-8 inches.
Bleeding Hearts. Di-el-y-tra.
See List No. 1 for description.
  
Hardy Candytuft.* I-be-ris.
Buy “Iberis Sempervirens”: white.
Pretty for edging.
 8-10 inches.
Forget-me-Not. My-o-so-tis.
Buy “Myosotis Palustris Semperflorens.” Sky-blue little flower.
8-10 inches.
Hardheads or Knap Weeds.
Perennial Cornflower.
 Cen-tau-re-a.
“Centaurea Montana” is known as the Perennial Bears large violet-blue flowers from July to September.
 2 feet.
Rambler roses also bloom in early Summer.
* If garden space is small, select only the names marked with a star.