Among the flowers
The spring bulbs, such as narcissus, tulips, crocuses, lilies-of-the-valley, usually found in most old farm gardens, often suffer death from the inexperienced city tenant cutting down the leaves when the blossoms fade, instead of allowing them to turn quite yellow before removing; for whether the strength of the dying leaves goes back into the roots or not I don't know, but most surely the bulbs die if the foliage is cut down whilst green. Dahlias and cannas of all sorts must go in at once. Spare time to water the young plants every evening if the weather is dry, for they need lots of moisture to produce flowers.
Next: July!
