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little damp, it creates a brave show indeed. For small beds and 

 borders no prettier edging could be had. 

 Nicotiana affinis, h. a., three feet. White Tobacco. 



Both this plant and the hybrid N. Sanderae, the flowers of which 

 are in shades of soft pink, are good annuals for our dry climate and 

 are striking enough to fill quite prominent places at the back of the 

 border. They bloom until after hard frost. The perfume of the 

 White Tobacco is very delicious at night and the tubular blossoms 

 have a shimmering quality which makes them very charming in the 

 moonlit garden. 

 Nigella damascene,, h. a., eighteen inches. Love-in-a-mist. 



Of all blue annuals this is the bluest and the quaintest, the most 

 old fashioned and the prettiest. The variety named for Miss 

 Jekyll is the best and bluest and will bloom all summer long if seed 

 does not form. It dislikes transplanting, so should be sown where 

 it is to flower and thinned out to five inches apart. It is very 

 charming planted near Gypsophila paniculata. 

 Papaver, h. a., Poppy. 



These creations of heat and light, of silken gauze and crinkled 

 crepe, have no peers for colour and texture in the floral kingdom. 

 They are like dainty bits of finery, and as such must we use them in 

 the garden, for their beauty is ephemeral and they leave sad blanks 

 behind them. One could hardly give a list of the best annual 

 Poppies, for they are many and all so lovely as to make choice 

 difficult, but a few which seem to me particularly beautiful are: 

 Charles Darwin, shades of mauve-pink, single; Danish Cross, strik- 

 ing scarlet and white, single; Miss Sherwood, lovely salmon-pink 

 and white, single; the Bride, pure white, single; Dainty Lady, 

 pinky-mauve, single, and the lovely Shirleys, in all the finest shades 

 of pink and scarlet. Besides the single sorts are various double- 

 flowered Poppies, like powder puffs and globes of fringed petals. 

 These are known as Carnation-flowered and Pseony-flowered and 

 may be had in as lovely shades as the singles. 



It is my experience that Poppy seed should be sown as early in the 

 spring as possible, in March or early in April, and it is well to choose 

 a windless day as the seed is very fine and will be blown in all direc- 

 tions, and it should be sown very thinly where it is to remain. 



