The Annual Garden 



edy is hand picking in early morning while the 

 beetles are sluggish. If a pan of hot water or 

 water with a little kerosene in it is carried and the 

 beetles dropped into it as gathered it will not be 

 difficult to control them. Spraying with arsenate 

 of lead will kill them if one does not object to the 

 use of poisons on flowers that are to be brought 

 into the house. Paris green can also be used but 

 discolors the flowers, but hand picking has no ob- 

 jectionable features aside from the labor entailed, 

 and that is by no means prohibitive as it takes but 

 a short time to go over a hundred plants. 



Try planting a few salvias on the shady side of 

 the house ; they will not make as much show dur- 

 ing the summer as those grown in the sunlight but 

 will be in full bloom long after those in exposed 

 positions are cut down by frost. 



A few very desirable annuals are plants of 

 one florescence and need to have repeated plant- 

 ings of seed for a continuous bloom. Most con- 

 spicuous of this class of plants is the candytuft 

 in white, purple and red and the charming little 

 schizanthus, which should be sown every few 



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