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beds arc made of any regular growing plants of one color only, with 

 a border line of some low growing flowering plant with contrasting 

 color. I once saw a bed of pink zinnias with a border of white sweet 

 alyssum that was strikingly fine. Any color of asters used in this 

 way would be in good taste. Nothing can surpass the scarlet salvia 

 when planted in masses on the lawn. They should be planted very 

 early in the season to get the most bloom possible. 



Rustic baskets and lawn vases can be filled with annuals entirel}', 

 and quite outshow some of the green-house products, using several of 

 the pendant-growing seedlings to droop over the edges, among 

 which are the thunbergia, lobelia clegans, ipomoBa, quamoclit, mau- 

 randyas, or the tropa^olums, if the basket is quite large. Then 

 there are centaurajs, dwarf cannas, perillas, pyrethrums, white 

 candytufts, ageratums, bush tropoeolums, vincas, uphorbias, emphor- 

 bias, agrostemma, and the amaranthus, the tri-color in particular 

 for the center of such baskets. 



Annuals furnish some of the finest vines for trellises or screens 

 found among the florist's treasures ; among them the coboe, tropoeo- 

 lum, lophospernum and the ipormoea. These are some of the com- 

 binations I have used with happy results, and any one looking at 

 the various catalogues issued bj' the florists will see there are still 

 plenty of possible combinations to tax their ingenuity and give 

 delight to any who may like to try inexpensive lawn decoration, and 

 prove to the public that taste and not expense makes the beautiful 

 attractive home. 



