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

Chapter 35: CHAPTER X Autumn 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 X
Autumn Garden

LIST No. 4
Thirteen Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early and Late Fall

As pictured in the Mary Frances Garden Cut-Out No. 4.
Common Name.      Botanical Name.      Remarks.      Height.     
Hardy Larkspur.
Del-phin-i-um.
See List No. 3 for description.
  
Monks Hood.
Ac-o-ni-tum.
Curiously shaped blue and white flowers. Will grow in shade.
Buy the plants.
 3-5 feet.
Hardy Phlox.*
  
See List of Hardy Perennials for Little Folks Garden.
  
Sneezewort.
He-len-i-um.
Yellow, old-gold, changing to terra-cotta, daisy-like flowers.
Buy “Riverton Gem,” “Riverton Beauty.”
Plant seed in August, or buy the plants.
 36 inches.
Hardy Asters* (“Starwort”).
Mich-ael-mas Dai-sies.
See Garden for Little Folks for description.
 36 inches.
Hardy Chrysanthemums.*
  
All colors except blue and purple.
15-24 inches.
Wind Flower.
A-nem-o-ne Ja-pon-i-ca.
Rose, pink, white flowers. If grown from seed, protect with shade-cover until started.
Cover well in the Fall with straw or leaves. Will not grow in all soils.
2-4 feet.
Blanket Flower.
Gail-lard-i-a.
See Garden for Little Folks for description.
 
Coreopsis.*
  
See Garden for Little Folks for description.
  
Red Hot Poker.
Flame Flower.
Torch Lily.
Tri-to-ma.
Yellow-orange-scarlet showy flowers hanging downward in long clusters on “spike” heads.
Buy plants. Not shown in the Cut-Out.
36 inches.
Tufted Pansies.
Vi-o-la Cor-nu-ta.
See List No. 3 for description.
  
Hybrid Tea Roses.
  
See Chapter XXXV on Roses.
  
Thoroughwort.*
Eu-pa-to-ri-um.
See Garden for Little Folks for description.
  

Note.—Most seed houses furnish collections of seeds of Wild Flowers. They may be had in tall-growing and dwarf varieties for a very reasonable price.
* If garden space is small, select only the names marked with a star.