HOW TO MAKE A FLOWER GARDEN 



CHAPTER I. ANNUALS 



I. The Best Kinds and How to Grow Them 



By L. H. Bailey 



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NNUAL plants are those that you must 

 sow every year. From seed to seed is 

 only a year or less. Annual plants 

 probably comprise half the flowering plants of 

 the world. They quickly take advantage of the 

 moving seasons — grow, blossom, and die before 

 they are caught by the blight of winter or of 

 the parching dry season. They are shifty 

 plants, now growing here, then absconding to 

 other places. This very uncertainty and capri- 

 ciousness makes them worth the while. The 

 staid perennials I want for the main and per- 

 manent eftects in my garden, but I could no 



more do without annuals than I could do without the spices and the condi- 

 ments at the table. They are flowers of a season: I like flowers of a season. 

 Of the kmds of annuals there 



is almost no end This does not 



mean that all are equally good. 



For myself, I like to make the 



bold effects with a few of the old 



profuse and reliable kinds. I like 



whole masses and clouds of them. 



Then the other kinds I like to grow 



in smaller areas at one side, m a 



half -experimental way. There is 



no need of trying to grow equal 



quantities of all the kinds that you 



Annual wallflowers 



