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verbenas, poppies, China asters, sweet peas, nemophilas, 

 portulacas, silenes, candytufts or iberis, alyssum, stocks or 

 matthiolas, morning-glories, nasturtiums or tropseolums. 



Annual flowers possess a great advantage over perennials 

 in the fact that they appeal strongly to the desire for ex- 

 periment. The seeds are sown every year, and there is suffi- 

 cient element of uncertainty in the results to make the effort 

 interesting; and new combinations can be tried each year. 



Do not cut the old stalks down in the fall. They will 

 stand in the snow all through the winter, and remind you of 

 the bursting summer time and the long -ripening fall; and 

 the snow-birds will find them in the short days of winter. 



Some of the most reliable and easily grown annuals for 

 the north are given in the following lists (under the com- 

 mon trade names) : 



WHITE FLOWERS 



Ageratum Mexicanum album . Matthiola (Stocks), Cut and 

 Alyssum, Common Sweet. Come Again. r ua j 



Alyssum, Sweet, compacta. Matthiola, Dresden Perpet- 



Centranthus macrosiphon Matthiola, Giant Perfection. 



albus. Matthiola, White Pearl. 



Convolvulus major. Mirabilis longiflora alba. 



Dianthus, Double White Mar- Nigella. 



garet. Papaver (Poppy), Flag of 

 Iberis amara. Truce. 



Iberis coronaria, White Papaver, Shirley. 



Rocket. Papaver, The Mikado. 



Ipomoea hederacea. Phlox, Dwarf Snowball. 



Lavatera alba. Phlox, Leopoldii. 



Malope grandiflora alba. Zinnia. 



YELLOW FLOWERS 



Cacalia lutea. [mon. Calendula sulphurea. 



Calendula officinalis, Com- Calendula suffruticosa. 

 Calendula officinalis, Meteor. Calliopsis bicolor marmorata. 



