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Myosotis dissitiflora or Arabis albida for spring 
bloom or with violas (tufted pansies) for summer 
flowers. All of these plants can be set out in 
October and with the exception of the candytuft 
any of them are suitable for places between the 
bulbs, which they follow immediately in bloom 
when the period is not coincident; the arabis and 
myosotis are especially good with early tulips, or 
late ones if care is taken as to the color that goes 
with the myosotis. 
Late in May, when the bulb foliage is turning 
brown, remove any other plants that are not used 
for edging and set annuals in all the available 
spaces. Or the bulbs may be taken up, dried off 
and reset in the autumn. If this is done through- 
out, or here and there, the garden may be given 
a riot of autumn color by massings of hardy chry- 
santhemums. It is not necessary that the chrysan- 
themums should be potted ones; they may be plants 
from cuttings rooted in the spring and grown on 
in rows, as they will bear moving even when in 
bloom. 
Start the annuals, other than poppies, eschscholt- 
zia and sweet alyssum, early by sowing seed in a 
coldframe soon after the first of May. Keep the 
plants under glass until the end of the month, or 
later if the garden is not ready for them. Do not 
let them get spindling; this is the objection to 
starting the seeds in the house in boxes in April. 
If started still earlier in a greenhouse, in March, 
they can be potted and put in the garden as good- 
