BEDDING PLANTS FROM SEED 61 



The zonale geraniums are of the easiest culture and 

 should be handled the same as salvias, dahlias and 

 the like — gentle heat, sun as they grow stronger, but 

 less water than carinas and a little hardening off be- 

 fore transplanting. 



Lantanas are especially easy to grow and make de- 

 lightful low hedges between lots or between different 

 parts of the grounds where a low hedge is desired. 

 Each little seed is a nut in reality and, curiously 

 enough, will often give two plants from one nut. They 

 grow very rapidly, and I have had, from spring 

 planted seed, plants over two feet in diameter and a 

 mass of bloom by mid-summer. They do not seem to 

 be afflicted with insects or disease, and are altogether 

 one of our most desirable bedding or pot plants. 



The lobelia is so easily grown from seed that it 

 may be used to edge beds of other plants as well as 

 for vases, boxes, baskets and the like. 



Petunias are so desirable in all the many varieties 

 that one can never go far amiss in planting them 

 largely, both for mass effect on the lawn, for edging 

 to the perennial borders or in front of shrubbery, or 

 for window and porch boxes and for vases. The 

 small flowered white snowball is one of the best for 

 mass effect. The brilliant, and equally effective, 

 carmine variety, and the Howard Star are also 

 desirable in this respect, Brilliant being a very 

 effective variety for massing in window boxes 



