A little book of annuals

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Contents

CONTENTS

Page Preface 10

The Use of Annuals 11

Index to Plant Names Ill

Tabular Cultural Index 113

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Fig. 1 — The charm of annuals in the garden (Sweet Alyssum)

Frontispiece Page

Fig. 2 — Two suggested annual horder planting plans 10

Fig. 3 — Sowing seeds in pots 15

Fig. 4 — A flat for seed sowing 17

Fig. 5 — A handy frame for marking out rows in a seed flat 17

Fig. 6 — Small pots for seedlings hard to transplant 18

Fig. 7 — Seedlings of some common annuals 19

Fig. 8 — Good and poor seedlings contrasted 20

Fig. 9 — The eff'ect of pinching or topping 20

Fig. 10 — Watering fine seeds or seedhngs 21

Fig. 11 — A plan for a corner planting of yellow and gold 22

Fig. 12 — A forcing box 24

Fig. 13 — Section of a hotbed frame 25

Fig. 14 — Four suggestions for arrangements of annuals 30

Fig. 15 — Ageratum, Blue-eyed African Daisy, Agemone and Browallia. .32

Fig. 16 — Prince's Feather, Balsam and Calendula 34

Fig. 17 — Coreopsis Drummondii and C. tinctoria 37

Fig. 18 — The showy Castor Bean plant 38

Fig. 19 — Cockscomb, Candytuft, and Woolflower 40

Fig. 20 — Sweet Sultans and Corn Flowers, or Bachelor's Buttons 42

Fig. 21 — Types of China Asters 43

Fig. 22 — China Asters effectively placed along a garden walk 44

Fig. 23 — Clarkia and the Annual Chrysanthemum 47

Fig. 24 — How to tie plants to stakes; also Giant Spider Flower, and

Cosmos 49

Fig. 25 — Blue Lace Flower, Four o' Clock and Gaillardia 51

Fig. 26 — Datura, Flora's Paint Brush, African Orange Daisy, and California Poppies 52

Fig. 27 — Scarlet Flax, Godetia, Bocket-flowered Larkspur, Hunne-

mannia, and Lavatera 56

Fig. 28 — Gypsophila, a dainty, almost indispensable flower. . 57

Fig. 29 — ^An attractive edging of the dwarf, upright Lobelia 60

Fig. 30 — Lupine spikes make dainty cut flowers 61

Fig. 31— Three kinds of Marigolds 61

Fig. 32 — Mignonette — "its sweetness wins all hearts" 63

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 9

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Fig. 33 — Leaves of the Sensitive Plant 64

Fig. 34 — The Monkey Flower, bizarre, but well worth growing 64

Fig. 35— The dwarf Morning Glory 65

Fig. 36 — Ornamental Tobacco in the daytime with flowers closed 66

Fig. 37 — The blue Nigella flowers with their lacy collars 68

Fig. 38 — A glorious mass of Pansies and Petunias 70

Fig. 39 — Phlox Drummondii, Pentstemon and Star Phlox 74

Fig. 40 — The Opium Poppy, Physahs and Double China Pinks 76

Fig. 41 — The graceful, silky petaled Shirley Poppies 77

Fig. 42 — Salpiglossis, Portulaca and Scabiosa 78

Fig. 43 — Stock, Sunflowers, Schizanthus and Snapdragon 82

Fig. 44 — An excellent example of the successful use of Kochia 83

Fig. 45 — Diagram comparing old and new Sweet Pea planting methods . 87 Fig. 46 — Zinnias, Torenia, Verbenas, Orchid-flowering Sweet Peas and

Virginian Stock 90

Fig. 47 — Some of the more popular ornamental grasses 96

Fig. 48— Strawflowers 100

Fig. 49 — The amusing Canary Bird Vine 104

Fig. 50 — Nasturtiums provide abundant flowers 104

Fig. 51 — Gobaea, Morning Glory, the Cypress Vine, the Balsam Apple,

and Dipper Gourds 106