Annuals as 
grown in reserve, are desirable substitutes, or Chelone barbata 
Carpeting managed in the same way is also valuable. 
Plants 
Numbers of annuals and biennials are useful for carpeting 
ground among summer flowering bulbs—such as Gladiolus, 
Lilies, etc. They, as a rule, should be sown in the reserve 
garden the first week in May, and transplanted in June to the 
positions for each. Swan River Daisy in three kinds, Chinese 
Pinks, Saponaria calabrica—pink and white—Senecio elegans 
—lilac, purple, or copper—Matricaria Golden Ball, Linaria 
bipartita and reticulata, Rhodanthe maculata alba and 
Manglesti, Lobel’s Catchfly, white - flowered Mignonette, 
and Coreopsis tinctoria, provide a selection merely. There 
are a few foliage plants among annuals which are very 
useful in Scottish gardens — Prince’s Feather, growing on 
poor soil, and Love-lies-bleeding, both of which should 
be sown not earlier than the beginning of May, and 4¢ri- 
plex hortensis rubra. It perhaps hardly needs adding that 
annuals and biennials, to succeed, must have space for each 
plant to develop according to its habit, nor that it is essential, 
with a few exceptions, that the ground should be prepared in 
the most thorough manner possible and properly fertilised with 
rotted manure, and lastly that none should be allowed to bear 
seeds. The majority prefer somewhat firm soil to that which 
is loose. 
R. P. BROTHERSTON. 
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