THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



Floral Edition. 



One of the walks in the modest garden of T. H. Taylor. Hamilton, Ont. 



do remarkably well when the seed is 

 also sown directly into the garden. 

 Advantages of Growing Annuals. 



One reason for the popularity of an- 

 nuals is that they are easy to grow. 

 They have several other advantages 

 over all other flowers. 



Annual flowers may be used to fill 

 up the gaps in the perennial borders 

 and to give bloom during those periods 

 of the summer when few other flowers 

 or shrubs are in season. 



Annuals may be used to produce 

 bold effects by using large mast^es of 

 them in strategic positions. For in- 

 stance, petunias, verbenas, Shirley pop- 

 pies, salvia, snapdragons, will prove 

 very effective when used in this way. 



For new gardens annuals are prac- 

 tically the only flowers which may be 

 depended upon to give fine effects the 

 first year inasmuch as perennial flow- 

 ers and shrubs will not flower till the 

 second and third years after planting. 



No other groups of flowers are so 

 rich in fragrant flowers as the annuals : 



"The perfume of tree and flower, of 

 grass and mellow earth, is Nature's in- 

 cense." The best known fragrant an- 

 nuals r.re ■ Sweet peas, mignonette, ten 

 week stocks, nicotiana, petunias, espe- 

 cially doubles, candytuft, pinks. 



For cut flmvers annuals give splen- 

 did rewards. The following is a repre- 

 sentative list of annuaOs which give 

 abundance of suitable blooms for cut- 

 ting for decorative purposes. 



Annuals for Cut Flowers. 



China asters, sweet peas, nastur- 

 tiums, sweet sultan (Centaurea), pin 

 cushion flower (Sweet Scabious), single 

 collarette dahlias, ten week stocks, 

 mignonette, snapdragons, everlastings, 

 zinnias, galdiopsis, or coreopsis. 



The following annuals are among 

 the most beautiful of all flowers : 



Salpiglossis, sweet peas, godetias, 

 lavateras or mallows, shirley poppies, 

 ten week stocla?, larkspurs (tall varie- 

 ties), snapdragons, verbenas, petunias, 

 cosmos (early flowering), Swan River 

 daisy. 



How 1 MadejMy Garden Pay 



Miss Chrissie Anderson, Box 83, A ncaster, Ont. 



WE have a garden plot sixty-two 

 by seventy-five feet, bounded 

 on the east side by a peren- 

 nial border about six feet wide, filled 

 with old-fashioned flowers, clumps of 

 purple iris, ribbon grass and paeonies. 

 These bloomed so profusely it occurred, 

 to me our garden might be made a 

 source of profit as well as of pleasure. 

 It was decided to use the whole plot of 

 grqund for flowers. 



In the fall, I ordered two hundred 

 bulbs, tulips and daffodils, which I 

 tucked into comers in the border. I 

 had a box fllled with earth and carried 

 into the house so when March came I 

 filled a number of shallow boxes and 

 sowed my seeds. Three packets of 



Crego Giant asters, pink, white and 

 lavendar, and three of snap-dragon, 

 pink and white. In the first week of 

 April we had a load of stable manure 

 spread over the garden, which was 

 then plowed and harrowed and raked 

 into shape. The border was lightly 

 forked over so the plants were undis- 

 turbed. 



Next I set to work to plant my 

 sweet peas. I had three long trenches 

 dug, about a foot deep and three feet 

 apart. I added a layer of manure, 

 covered with earth, then the seeds, each 

 eolor by itself, and more earth, filling 

 in the trenches as the peas came 

 through. Seventy-five gladioli came 

 next, in rows a foot apart. Then six 



rows of dahlias, about two feet apart, 

 and three large aster beds. 



Meanwhile my seed boxes in their 

 .sunny south windows had not been 

 idle, and about the middle of May I 

 had two hundred and fifty asters to 

 fill the beds. I set them out, a foot and 

 a half apart. I had two hundred snap- 

 dragons, which I treated the same way, 

 except that I waited until the end of 

 May, before transplanting. 



The end of April our bulbs began to 

 bloom. "We sold fifteen dozen tulipn 

 and daffodils, for from fifteen to 

 twenty-five cents a dozen, to hotels for 

 table decorations. The iris were next 

 in order and eight dozen spikes iv«nt 

 to a florist at twenty five cents a 

 dozen. Meanwhile the paeonies were 

 coming out and we had thirteen dozen 

 blooms at thirty-five cents a dozen. 

 These we sold to hn-tels and tea rooms, 

 as their price was better. 



Our sweet peas began to flower the 

 end of June and we made a contract to 

 supply a florist with so many hundred 

 blooms a week at forty cents a 

 hundred, but we reckoned without the 

 green fly. Owing to the wet season 

 this pest was very bad, and in spite of 

 much spraying, our peas were gradu- 

 ally ruined. Still we were able to fill 

 our contract to the extent of eleven 

 hundred blooms. They were put up in 

 bunches of twenty-five, each color by 

 itself. The snap-dragons we sold the 

 same way at seventy-five cents a 

 hundred. During the season we sold 

 fourteen hundred blossoms. 



Gladioli are popular, but the price 

 was low, being twenty cents a dozen. 

 We had twelve dozen. Dahlias were 

 cheap and plentiful. We had, in all, 

 two thousand blooms. 



Our a-sters were lovely and flowered 

 profusely. We sold two thousand 

 blooms to a florist at seventy-five cents 

 a hundred. These flowers were cut the 

 night before shipping and kept in 

 water over night. Then they were 

 packed in cardboard boxes. 



As we live only seven miles from the 

 city, transportation was an easy 

 matter. 



Tulips and daffodils, 15 doz $ 3.00 



Iris, 8 doz 2.00 



Peonies, 13 doz 4.55 



Sweet peas, 1,100 blooms 4.40 



Snap-dragons, 1,400 blooms 10.50 



Gladioli, 12 doz 2.40 



Dahlias, 2,000 blooms 15.00 



Asters, 2,000 blooms , . 15.00 



$56.85 



Onion sets may be planted as soon 

 as the land can be worked. They are 

 plentiful and of good quality this year. 

 Use either white or yellow kinds ; they 

 look better on the table and are milder 

 than the red. 



