14 How to Make a Flower Garden 



oranges and yellows; sweet sultans for purples, whites and pale yellows; 

 petunias for purples, violets and whites; larkspurs for blues and violets; 

 bachelor's-buttons (or cornflowers) for blues; calliopsis and coreopsis and 

 calendulas for yellows ; gaillardias for red-yellows ; China asters for many 

 colors except 3^ellow. 



For still less robustness, good mass-displays can be made with the 

 following: Alyssums and candytufts for whites; phloxes for whites and 

 various pinks and reds; lobelias and browallias for blues; pinks for whites 

 and various shades of pink; stocks for whites and reds and dull blues; 

 wallflowers for brown-yellows ; verbenas for many colours. 



Some of the common annuals do not lend themselves well to mass- 

 displays. They are of interest because of peculiar foliage, odd or unusual 

 flowers, special uses, and the like. Of such are portulacas (for hot, sunny 

 places), balsams, cockscombs, poppies (the blooming period is short), pansies, 

 dwarf convolvuluses and dwarf nasturtiums, snapdragons, amaranths, 

 four-o'clocks, mignonettes, alonsoas, schizanthus, nolanas, argemone, horned 

 poppy, and many others. 



I should never consider a garden of pleasant annual flowers to be complete 

 that did not contain some of the "everlastings," or immortelles. These 

 "paper flowers" are always interesting to children. 1 do not care for them 

 for the making of "dry bouquets," but for their interest as a part of 

 a garden. The colours are bright, the blooms hold long on the plant, 

 and most of the kinds are very easy to grow. My favourite groups 

 ars the different kinds of xeranthemums and helichrysums. The gom- 

 phrenas, with clover-like heads (sometimes known as bachelor's-buttons), 

 are good old favourites. Rhodanthes and ammobiums are also good. 



Among the ornamental annual grasses, I have had most satisfaction 

 w4th the brizas, coix or Job's tears, and some of the species of agrostis 

 and eragrostis. 



Some of the perennials and biennials can be treated as annuals if they 

 are started very early indoors. A number of the very late-flowering annuals 

 should also be started indoors for best success in the northern States, as, for 

 example, the moonflowers and the tall-growing kinds of cosmos. 



If flowers of any annual are wanted extra early, the seeds should be 

 started indoors. It is not necessary to have a greenhouse for this purpose, 

 although best results are to be expected with such a building. The seeds 

 may be sown m boxes, and these boxes then placed in a sheltered position 



