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HOW TO SUCCEED WITH ANNUALS 



People have a way of speaking of annuals as if they were 

 the merest makeshifts in gardening, a kind of temporary 

 filling for beds and flower borders, to be replaced by some- 

 thing better at the earliest possible moment. If one lives the 

 year round in one place it is necessary to have other plant- 

 ing, but for the summer-home in the mountains or at the sea- 

 shore or in the country, for the city back yard, and the home- 

 made "roof -garden," annuals are invaluable. 



In the garden world the hardy perennials are like those 

 old families in a small community who can never see any 

 reason whatever for going outside their native place and, if 

 ever they do, must have the soil and climate precisely to their 

 liking. Annuals, on the other hand, are perfect cosmopolitans, 

 and the most daring of adventurers besides. Some are citizens 

 of Europe, many are from Africa, South America, Mexico, 

 Australia, or the East Indies. Some are tropical plants, be- 

 longing in their own country to stately and respected families 

 of perennials, but none has the slightest objection to spending 

 a summer with whoever cares to give it garden room. In 

 fact, through their representatives one may have all the king- 

 doms of this world within the modest confines of a back-yard 

 fence, and at a cost of about half a dollar, which is a cheering 

 thought to any one whose means are not unlimited. 



ANNUALS NOT OFTEN PLANTED BUT EASY TO GROW 



Here are a few of the annuals perfectly easy to grow, but 

 which, for some reason or other, one rarely sees in gardens: 



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