Annuals as grown in reserve, are desirable substitutes, or Chelone barbata 

 Carpeting managed in the same way is also valuable. 



Plants Numbers of annuals and biennials are useful for carpeting 



ground among summer flowering bulbs such as Gladiolus, 

 Lilies, etc. They, as a rule, should be sown in the reserve 

 garden the first week in May, and transplanted in June to the 

 positions for each. Swan River Daisy in three kinds, Chinese 

 Pinks, Saponaria calabrica pink and white Senecio elegans 

 lilac, purple, or copper Matricaria Golden Ball, Linaria 

 blpartita and retlculata^ Rhodantbe maculata alba and 

 Mangle sii, Lobel's Catchfly, white - flowered Mignonette, 

 and Coreopsis tinctoria, provide a selection merely. There 

 are a few foliage plants among annuals which are very 

 useful in Scottish gardens Prince's Feather, growing on 

 poor soil, and Love-lies-bleeding, both of which should 

 be sown not earlier than the beginning of May, and Atri- 

 plex hortensis rubra. It perhaps hardly needs adding that 

 annuals and biennials, to succeed, must have space for each 

 plant to develop according to its habit, nor that it is essential, 

 with a few exceptions, that the ground should be prepared in 

 the most thorough manner possible and properly fertilised with 

 rotted manure, and lastly that none should be allowed to bear 

 seeds. The majority prefer somewhat firm soil to that which 

 is loose. 



R. P. BROTHERSTON. 



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