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side will also fit it for use with a circular design. Border, 

 dwarf blue ageratum ; circle, blue lobelia ; ground (3 parts), 

 crimson alternanthera. 



Other carpet or mosaic beds (after Long), with the plants 

 indicated, are shown in Figs. 191, 192. 



3. Edgings and Mass-beds 



PLANTS FOR EDGINGS, BORDERS AND RIBBON-BEDS 

 (Blooming all summer') 



AGERATUM MEXICANUM, Hh.* Dwarf blue, Height, 9 inches. 

 Sow when danger of frost is over, in the open ground; or 

 for early plauts, in March, in the greenhouse or hotbed. 

 Plant them G inches apart. 



ALYSSUM (Sweet) H. White. Of spreading habit, growing 6 to 

 8 inches high. A valuable plant. Treatment the same as 

 for ageratum. 



CANDYTUFT, H. The annual kinds are useful bedding plants. 

 The white and carmine sorts are the best colors. Height, 

 1 foot. The dwarf Iberis offinis grows only about 6 inches 

 high. Its colors are white, rose, and purple. Treatment 

 similar to the last. When sown early, transplant while 

 small to pots. 



CLARKIA. See Annuals, page 259. 



GILIA. See Annuals, page 259. 



LOBELIA ERINUS, Hh. P. Of compact, trailing habit. Small 

 blue flowers. Height, 6 inches. Crystal Palace is perhaps 

 the best. Sow in a hotbed or greenhouse in January. 



MARIGOLD. See Annuals, page 261. 



NEMOPHILA. See Annuals, page 261. 



PORTULACA, T. Beautiful and brilliant, for either lines, edg- 

 ings, or masses especially the double sorts. The flowers 

 are like little roses, and of a great variety of shades in 

 scarlet, white, pink, yellow, and purple. Height, 6 inches. 

 Blooms from July till frost. Sow thickly in the open 



*H., Hh. and T. P., hardy, half-hardy and tender perennial re- 

 spectively. 



