122 



•all are allowed to remain the flowers will be small. 

 Should any plants show themselves to be single they must 

 be immediately pulled up and thrown away. Zinnias 

 being very thrifty growers do not need very rich soil and 

 are not very particular as regards location, doing well 

 almost anywhere. They grow easily from seed planted 

 in May in the open ground, and having once blossomed 

 remain in flower until frost, looking well until the seed is 

 quite ripe. The fact of the flowers remaining so long 

 perfect has given the plant one of its common names, 

 "Youth and Old Age.'" Some of the varieties are grand, 

 the beautiful scarlet, purple, orange and lilac flowers 

 being perfectly double and as evenly imbricated as a 

 camellia. Zinnias are certainly one of our best fall 

 annuals. 



CYPRESS VINE. 



This half hardy climbing annual deserves to be more 

 •extensively cultivated than it is. Its delicate dark green 

 feathery foliage, combined with an abundance of white, 

 rose and scarlet flowers, make a very pretty appearance 

 when properly trained on a veranda or trellis. The cy- 

 press vine requires a rich soil made very fine and porous, 

 and if the seeds are soaked in hot water just before being 

 sown they will germinate more freely than otherwise, 

 some cultivators pour hot water on the ground after 

 planting, but I have had better success by soaking the 

 seed as above stated. Like other annuals, if the seed is 

 planted in pots in the hot-bed or greenhouse, a much 

 earlier growth can be obtained. One of the most unique, 

 and I may say beautiful features of my garden has been 

 what I call my " Cypress Vine Cone." It is made in the 

 following manner and always attracts a great deal of 

 attention : Select a good stout hard wood bean pole about 

 ten feet or so long, and having made a slightly raised hill 

 as for beans, set the pole firmly in the centre : around the 

 pole draw a circle say three or four feet in diameter with 

 the pole as a centre, and every three inches on the cir- 



