The Annual Garden 



with its curious flowers of pure white and white 

 and rose, the long, curving anthers of which have 

 given it the name of "Spider Flower." It is a 

 beautiful and desirable plant, and should be 

 started in the house or hotbed and transplanted 

 where it is to bloom when the nights are warm, 

 setting the plants two feet apart. The Nicotiana 

 Sylvestris is another stately plant, growing to a 

 height of five or six feet in good soil and, unlike 

 N^. aflinnis, its snow-white blooms remain open 

 all day and are attractive when grown in the rear 

 of beds of salvias. Like the cleom it requires 

 room to develop. Practically all annuals may 

 be sown in the open ground; the only object in 

 sowing in hotbeds or house and transplanting 

 is to bring them forward early so as to have the 

 longest possible season of bloom. 



To speak of asters seems superfluous, as what- 

 ever flowers may be absent from the annual gar- 

 den it is a safe venture to claim that the aster will 

 not be missing; that is quite as it should be; 

 there is really no one flower that so completely 

 meets the requh'ements of scenic effect and cut 



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