ANNUALS 103 
ing heart, oriental poppies and some other peren- 
nials. Not a year but there are bare spots that 
nature will strive to fill with weeds rather than 
have them bare. Here annuals are welcomed. 
But it would be doing annuals scant justice to 
leave them to hazards of this sort. Paradoxical 
though it sounds, it is an unideal hardy garden 
that does not provide in the layout for one or 
more colonies of annuals. Without them there is, 
somehow, a sense of incompleteness. 
The greater the departure from the conventional 
the more objection there is to using double flowers. 
The objection is highly elastic; nine times out of 
ten it need not bar the showy double forms of 
the China aster, clarkia, zinnia, stock, poppy and 
African marigold. The chances are, however, that 
where thought is given to the matter the peculiar 
advantages of single forms for drifts and other 
naturalistic plantings will be apparent; single China 
asters and poppies look natural, double ones do 
not. 
Besides those mentioned, some of the best an- 
nuals for unconventional massing are larkspur, Arc- 
totis grandis, godetia, lupine, Drummond’s phlox, 
schizanthus, candytuft, leptosyne, nigella, corn- 
flower, eschscholtzia, cosmos, petunia, nemophila, 
Saponaria vaccaria, phacelia, scabiosa, chrysanthe- 
mum, spreading lobelia (L. speciosa), nemesia, 
Gyphsophila elegans, nicotiana, viscaria, Brachy- 
come iberidifolia, portulaca, coreopsis, alonsoa, 
Dimorphotheca aurantiaca, \eptosiphon, petunia, 
