Useful the loveliest of all blues, the Convolvulus, Ipomea rubra carulea. 



Summer Such an effect, or the blue alone, could well be realised on a 



Annuals bed f ^ ate Tulips, and would give very little trouble once started, 



as many of these annuals seed themselves well. A border of 



Antirrhinums alone is very effective ; the dark red, with almost 



purple foliage, is particularly fine, and they last months in flower. 



There are many other useful annuals which should be 



grown, such as those mentioned in the following list, not 



forgetting the indispensable Mignonette and Night-scented 



Stock. 



Annual Toadflax Ltnaria bipartita, rettculata or aureo 

 purpurea, should be sown early in the year in the 

 open ground. 



Schi-zanthus if sown in heat in March, will make a 

 feathery mass of flower eighteen inches or two feet 

 high in July. 



Asperula orientalis blue. 

 Eartonia aurea sow out of doors in April or sooner in a 



frame. Bright yellow. 

 Phacelia tanacetefolla with grey-blue fuzzy heads of 



flowers. Sow out of doors. 

 Gilia pretty little edging and carpet plants of various 



colours. Sow out of doors. 



Verbena, in many good colours. Sow early in heat. 

 Iceland Poppies nudicaule white, yellow and orange. 

 Cosmos, white, very useful for the late Autumn, it grows 

 four feet or five feet high and bears a lot of white 

 flowers good for picking. Sow early in heat. 

 In the wild garden in July there should certainly be an 

 effect of pure white Foxgloves, either in big beds in the open 

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