PLANTING 



will merely appear later than if their seeds had been 

 started earlier in the season. No one need give up 

 raising flowers from seeds because one possesses neither 

 a hot bed nor a greenhouse in which to start them. 



Annuals should have a place in every garden, for 

 among them there are some of the loveliest flowers, 

 vividly brilliant and of high decorative value. They 

 are not to be discarded because they die completely 

 at the end of one season. They are worth sowing and 

 tending each year. 



In a young garden where the perennials have not 

 been long established, annuals are of the greatest value 

 in filling up the gaps that must otherwise occur the 

 first season. But as the perennials grow and increase, 

 it often becomes a necessity to assign the annuals to 

 a place by themselves, in order that the cultivation 

 and disturbance of the soil, which must take place 

 from time to time for their benefit, may not interfere 

 with the roots of the perennials already in the ground. 



There is little spring planting, perhaps, that can be 

 done with the thought of the coming season alone. 

 The fact that one year surely follows another must 

 help the imagination to picture perennials grown large 

 and run together, forming solid masses. 



Some annuals, such as poppies, portulacca, and 

 bachelor's buttons, which may have been used to 

 accelerate the bloom of a garden while the perennials 

 were becoming established, are often found to sow 

 themselves so abundantly that there is no need to plant 

 them after the first year. Very often it is difficult to 

 dislodge them from the soil originally allotted to them. 



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