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Bulletin 161. 



The decorated tennis fence. 



children's play-house, may be screened with morning glories, 



flowering beans, and other twiners and climbers. The windows 



may be screened and decorated by vines grown either in the 



ground or in window-boxes. 



Efficient screens can be made of many strong-growing and large- 

 leaved plants, of which castor beans, 

 sunflowers, cannas, tobacco and 

 other nicotianas (Fig. 43 is one), 

 striped or Japanese corn, are the 

 chief. But it is not the mission of this 

 bulletin to report upon foliage plants. 

 How to gfrow annuals. — The 

 annual flowers of the seedsmen 



are those which give their best bloom in the very year in which 



the seeds are 



sown . The 



true annuals 



are those 



plants which 



complete 



their e n t i re 



life-cycle i w 



one season. 



Some of the 



so-called an- 

 nual flowers 



will continue 



to bloom the 



second and 



third years. 



but the bloom 



is so poor and 



sparse after 



the first sea- 

 son that it 



does not pay to keep them. 



Most annuals will bloom in central New York if the seeds are 



sown in the open ground when the weather becomes thoroughly 



43- 



-Strong-growing and large-leaved herbs make 

 excellent screens. {From the French.) 



