VII 



Annuals 



To the indolent or the prideless gardener annuals 

 are a nuisance. When the tulips and the spring 

 flowers are over there is a hurrying and a scurrying 

 and a digging and a preparing of the soil for the 

 many hardy and half-hardy annuals that are so 

 useful for helping to keep the garden beautiful 

 in July and August. 



My plan, aiming, as always, at bold masses of 

 colour, is to treat the annuals in much the same 

 way as I treat perennials, and to group them in 

 thick clusters. The ordinary dot-and-carry-one 

 method is an irritation, and, I am sure, must be 

 demoralising to the flowers. 



Their parade ground is a wide double border 

 with a grass path in between, lying n^ar the house 

 so that the way lies through them from the orchard 

 to the peat garden — the two chief dwelling-places. 

 Following the gentle slope of the lawn, the borders 

 bend down to meet the herbaceous borders by the 

 croquet lawn and the cherry walk. 



