ANNUALS 



A. caudatus, or Love-Lies-Bleeding, has long, 

 dark red, drooping flower spikes, and is not an 

 attractive plant to me. The best of the family 

 are coarse undesirable plants, except in certain 

 situations. All are easily raised from seeds sown 

 either in spring or fall. 



Gypsophilla ekgans, a variety of which is called 

 CovENT Garden, is an annual having some of 

 the virtues of its perennial relative, G. paniculata. 

 If you have the latter well established, it is not 

 worth while to plant the annual species, which, 

 however, is easily grown from seed, and prefers a 

 dry, sunny situation. 



Abronia umhellata is a tender trailing perennial 

 from California, with rosy purple, fragrant flowers 

 in clusters. It is rather attractive, easy to grow, 

 and thrives in a dry soil, or in the crevices of the 

 rocks in a sunny situation. It may be treated as 

 a hardy annual, and will seed itself, or the seeds 

 may be sown in the fall. 



Godetia grandiflora, or G. Whitneyi, is a western 

 American flower of some interest. It grows from 

 one to two feet high, bearing numerous flowers, 

 two inches or more in diameter, in shades of 

 pink, rose, blood red, or white mottled -and 

 striped with red. The double-flowered rose 



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