94 FLOWER GARDENING 
outset and time spent in replanting later. 
Suppose, to get away from the abstract, half a 
dozen oriental poppies and as many plants of 
“baby’s breath” (Gypsophila paniculata) are set 
out in a home nursery bed—in parallel rows, about 
fifteen inches apart and the plants nine inches 
apart in the rows. If the plants are of commer- 
cial size they may not seem too close together in 
the row the first year; but the second year they 
will look crowded and there will be every sign 
that thinning or complete replanting must be done 
earlier than ignorance had suspected would be the 
case at the time they were so very carefully set out 
at apparently wide spaces. 
Possibly ignorance, had the planting been done 
in a garden, would have taken it for granted that 
no change would be necessary for years. The 
second season it is noticed that an oriental poppy 
is likely to have a spread two feet in diameter 
while the masses of “‘baby’s breath” in the bloom- 
ing season will perhaps be twice that distance 
across. Meanwhile this will have been discoy- 
ered the first year and will be still plainer the sec- 
ond; the poppy blooms early in summer and soon 
the plant turns brown and dies down to the ground, 
the while the later-blooming “baby’s breath’? is 
spreading out toward it and gradually concealing 
its unsightliness. It is also seen that by the time 
the “baby’s breath” is turning brown a couple of 
vines of Thunbergia alata, from seed that hap- 
pened to fall there, are making their way over the 
