WHAT TO PLANT 



present help, although (like the accommodators again) they 

 are more expensive than their fellows, which can be cheaply 

 raised from seeds one could have planted in April or May. 

 The following are the most important "bedding-out" plants: 



Ageratum is a tender annual usually started in February under 

 glass and set out in June. It has soft, fluffy flowers of a vivid blue, 

 and has suffered much from being almost invariably planted with 

 red a combination as popular and distressing as that of bright blue 

 on a red-haired girl. Blue in a garden requires plenty of green. 



Begonias are best in a bed by themselves, so are fuchsias, though 

 they can sometimes be combined with other flowers forget-me- 

 nots or pansies. The best bedding geraniums are Mrs. E. Rawson, 

 a single variety of a rich, glowing scarlet with slight crimson shading 

 on the upper petals; Ricard, semi-double, bright vermilion, and Beaute 

 or Madame Pointevine, the popular double salmon-pink variety. 



Heliotropes may be had in dark or light shades. They combine 

 well with either geraniums or carnations. 



Lobelia makes an excellent edging and keeps in good shape for an 

 unusually long period. 



Lemon Verbena is grown for its fragrance, but its foliage is good. 



Salvia is effective used as a low hedge on either side of a path, 

 but because of its vivid color it should never be planted near any- 

 thing but white flowers. 



For a Two-Foot-Wide Bed in Front of a Piazza try one row each 

 of heliotrope and geraniums, the plants being set out about six inches 

 apart; or fuchsias and begonias might be used in the same fashion, 

 the begonias at the edge. 



To arrange a three-foot-wide border of salvia set the plants about 

 a foot apart; in alternating rows six to twelve inches apart. 



WHAT TO PLANT IN HALF A DOZEN BEDS 



The following beds are supposed to be from three feet 

 and a half to five feet in width; if wider, a fourth row can be 

 added either of lower plants at the front, or of taller plants at 

 the back. Sweet peas could be used at the back of any of the 

 borders given below. For a wide border use cosmos; for one 

 to be seen from a distance, sunflowers are good. 



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