Gardening for Little Girls

CONTENTS

I First Steps Toward a Garden 1

II Planning and Planting the Flower Beds 9

III Flowers That Must Be Renewed Every Year (Annuals) 19

IV Flowers That Live Through Two Years 30

V Flowers That Come Up Every Year by Themselves (Perennials) 37

VI Flowers That Spring From a Storehouse (Bulbs and Tubers) 48

VII That Queen—the Rose 58

VIII Vines, Tender and Hardy 71

IX Shrubs We Love to See 78

X Vegetable Growing for the Home Table 82

XI Your Garden's Friends and Foes 94

XII A Morning-Glory Playhouse 102

XIII The Work of a Children's Garden Club 107

XIV The Care of House Plants 115

XV Gifts That Will Please a Flower Lover 130

XVI The Gentlewoman's Art—Arranging Flowers 137