Annuals from s>eeli "9 



the ground, if not needed for other plants, for the 

 fresh seed. When there is sufficient shade to grow 

 them the blue of Myosotis and of Anchusa capensis 

 is lovely among the Poppies. 



Phlox Drummondi 



TRY a border of the dwarf Phlox Drummondi, 

 sown to make a colour scheme. Set six to eight 

 inches apart, in the form of scallops, the point coming 

 between every other plant of the tall, perennial Phlox. 

 Make the rows two or three plants wide at the centre, 

 narrowing to a single plant at the point, using scarlet 

 or pink, and filling in the space between the scallops 

 and the straight edge of the bed with solid white. 

 Or a double scallop, one beginning in the centre of the 

 other, may be made of scarlet and buff, or pink and 

 buff, filling in the large spaces between with white and 

 the small spaces with Cope's Favourite Ageratum. 

 The dwarf Ageratums grow very evenly and are ad- 

 mirably adapted for carpet bedding. Seed of the 

 dwarf Phlox germinates very slowly. It should be 

 sown where it will have bottom heat and be given 

 plenty of time, frequently three weeks or more. The 

 common Phlox Drummondi germinates more freely, 

 and may be sown where it is to remain, thinning to six 

 inches apart in the rows, or it may be sown and trans- 

 planted, which insures more even rows, 



