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a difficult task to find comparative material. 



A garden all of annuals is also a desirable ex- 

 pedient when a place is rented for a season. Peren- 

 nials, of course, can be set out temporarily and 

 removed with the rest of the household belong- 

 ings this is done every year but the plan is not 

 always practical. Most would prefer to plant an- 

 nuals and leave the problem of garden permanence 

 to the next comer. Again this kind of a garden 

 is a welcome alternative when a new place is in 

 its first season and there is either not the time 

 for permanent planting or else a definite scheme is 

 left to future decision. 



Then there is the country home that is occupied 

 only from late June to early September. The 

 garden could still be hardy, out of the abundance 

 of summer-blooming perennials, if there is any one 

 to give it the necessary spring and autumn care; 

 but annuals, and bedding plants treated as such, 

 are sometimes to be preferred for one reason or 

 another. 



Whether it is well to possess a garden of annuals 

 simply to have it all annuals is something that no 

 one can decide for another. Without question, it 

 may be a garden of superlative beauty; on the 

 Riviera are great borders that prove this bor- 

 ders composed of drifts and other irregular sec- 

 tions of some of the most strikingly effective an- 

 nuals, the arrangement being as careful as if per- 

 manent material were employed. Like proof was 

 offered at the international flower show of 1911 



