ANNUALS in 



fine a subject for pot culture as heart could desire. 

 This and other biennials, among them the fox- 

 glove, hollyhock and Myosotis dissitiflora, are 

 usually thrown in with the annuals as they are 

 regarded as plants of only a year so far as garden 

 usefulness is concerned. Often they spend scarcely 

 more time in the garden than is necessary for 

 blooming, after which they are discarded. The 

 same with sweet-william and columbine, though 

 both of these will persist several years if conditions 

 are favorable. 



Of the number of annuals in cultivation few have 

 any idea. Name a dozen or so and the list that 

 the average person can think of offhand is ex- 

 hausted. The common annuals are such because 

 of a worth that time has shown, but they do not 

 begin to be all that ought to be common. Nor do 

 they begin to be all the easy ones if any annuals 

 can be called really difficult. 



The salpiglosis is one that deserves to be better 

 known; it is very good for massing if the colors 

 are not mixed, but this plant affords the keenest 

 pleasure when it is in less crowded garden con- 

 ditions or when the blossoms are in a vase. Un- 

 appreciated, too, are schizanthus, with its myriads 

 of little butterflies; nemesia, than which no low 

 annual is more charming and which shows blue as 

 well as red, yellow, pink and white, and phacelia, 

 especially P. campanularia, with its blue bellflow- 

 ers. 



Then there are three rayed annuals that are 



