50 GARDENING WITH BRAINS -^ 



unlike most other bulbs, planted in spring. I 

 have had them winter outdoors in Maine and 

 come up in May, but not so perfect as the first 

 year, and it is best, in our Northern states, to 

 treat them as annuals, planting them every 

 spring in a new place, enriched with well -rotted 

 stable manure or commercial sheep manure. 



Annuals are, as I have already intimated, 

 more trouble than flowering shrubs or climbers 

 or blossoms grown from bulbs and perennial 

 roots. The seeds of many are so small that, 

 unless spring rains are frequent and the soil 

 rich, failure is certain unless brain and brawn 

 and patience are freely and constantly exercised. 

 More will be said about this in later chapters. 



Another difficulty with annuals is that there 

 are so many kinds to claim our attention that the 

 choice becomes a very puzzling matter. In the 

 chapter on "The Fragrant Soul of Flowers" I 

 shall indicate a way of making a living nose- 

 gay of your whole garden, or a section of it. 

 Verbenas, pansies, sweet peas, petunias, stocks, 

 wallflowers, tuberoses, schizanthuses, nicotianas, 

 heliotropes, lemon verbenas, cornflowers, clove 

 pinks or carnations, lupines, marigolds, are 

 fragrant, most of them delightfully so; while 

 among those which have no agreeable scent 

 are the lovely ground roses called portulaccas, 

 Chinese pinks, scabiosa, kochias or Mexican fire- 

 bushes, zinnias, asters, dahlias, begonias, anem- 

 ones, cockscombs, balsams, Oenotheras (Bur- 



