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a difficult task to find comparative material. 
A garden all of annuals is also a desirable ex- 
pedient when a place is rented for a season. Peren- 
nials, of course, can be set out temporarily and 
removed with the rest of the household belong- 
ings—this is done every year—but the plan is not 
always practical. Most would prefer to plant an- 
nuals and leave the problem of garden permanence 
to the next comer. Again this kind of a garden 
is a welcome alternative when a new place is in 
its first season and there is either not the time 
for permanent planting or else a definite scheme is 
left to future decision. 
Then there is the country home that is occupied 
only from late June to early September. The 
garden could still be hardy, out of the abundance 
of summer-blooming perennials, if there is any one 
to give it the necessary spring and autumn care; 
but annuals, and bedding plants treated as such, 
are sometimes to be preferred for one reason or 
another. 
Whether it is well to possess a garden of annuals 
simply to have it all annuals is something that no 
one can decide for another. Without question, it 
may be a garden of superlative beauty; on the 
Riviera are great borders that prove this—bor- 
ders composed of drifts and other irregular sec- 
tions of some of the most strikingly effective an- 
nuals, the arrangement being as careful as if per- 
manent material were employed. Like proof was 
offered at the international flower show of 1911 
