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Have a cutting garden.

Make room for it somewhere, usually off to one side and surrounded by a fence. Here several kinds of flowers can grow in regimented fashion, like rows of vegetables, for abundant cut flowers for indoor and outdoor bouquets. Dahlias, tall, medium and dwarf, can hardly be surpassed for performance. Other easy to grow cut flowers are zinnias, marigolds, calendulas, blue saliva, nicotiana, larkspur, gladiolus, scabiosa, bachelor buttons, china asters and chrysanthemums.

It's time to Divide Chrysanthemums and discard old woody central parts. Protect pansies, phlox and other preferred rabbit food with dried blood or a commercial repellent. Disbud peonies for largest terminal bloom. Support peonies with grow-through types of supports. Wait at last two more weeks before setting out dahlias, tuberous begonias, caladiums.