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ing heart, oriental poppies and some other peren- 

 nials. Not a year but there are bare spots that 

 nature will strive to fill with weeds rather than 

 have them bare. Here annuals are welcomed. 



But it would be doing annuals scant justice to 

 leave them to hazards of this sort. Paradoxical 

 though it sounds, it is an unideal hardy garden 

 that does not provide in the layout for one or 

 rnore colonies of annuals. Without them there is, 

 somehow, a sense of incompleteness. 



The greater the departure from the conventional 

 the more objection there is to using double flowers. 

 The objection is highly elastic; nine times out of 

 ten it need not bar the showy double forms of 

 the China aster, clarkia, zinnia, stock, poppy and 

 African marigold. The chances are, however, that 

 where thought is given to the matter the peculiar 

 advantages of single forms for drifts and other 

 naturalistic plantings will be apparent; single China 

 asters and poppies look natural, double ones do 

 not. 



Besides those mentioned, some of the best an- 

 nuals for unconventional massing are larkspur, Arc- 

 Jotis grandis, godetia, lupine, Drummond's phlox, 

 schizanthus, candytuft, leptosyne, nigella, corn- 

 flower, eschscholtzia, cosmos, petunia, nemophila, 

 Saponaria vaccaria, phacelia, scabiosa, chrysanthe- 

 mum, spreading lobelia (L. speciosa), nemesia, 

 Gyphsophila elegans, nicotiana, viscaria, Brachy- 

 come iberidifolia, portulaca, coreopsis, alonsoa, 

 Dimorphotheca aurantiaca, leptosiphon, petunia, 



