ANNUALS IIl 
fine a subject for pot culture as heart could desire. 
This and other biennials, among them the fox- 
glove, hollyhock and Myosotis dissitiflora, are 
usually thrown in with the annuals as they are 
regarded as plants of only a year so far as garden 
usefulness is concerned. Often they spend scarcely 
more time in the garden than is necessary for 
blooming, after which they are discarded. The 
same with sweet-william and columbine, though 
both of these will persist several years if conditions 
are favorable. 
Of the number of annuals in cultivation few have 
any idea. Name a dozen or so and the list that 
the average person can think of offhand is ex- 
hausted. The common annuals are such because 
of a worth that time has shown, but they do not 
begin to be all that ought to be common. Nor do 
they begin to be all the easy ones—if any annuals 
can be called really difficult. 
The salpiglosis is one that deserves to be better 
known; it is very good for massing if the colors 
are not mixed, but this plant affords the keenest 
pleasure when it is in less crowded garden con- 
ditions or when the blossoms are in a vase. Un- 
appreciated, too, are schizanthus, with its myriads 
of little butterflies; nemesia, than which no low 
annual is more charming and which shows blue as 
well as red, yellow, pink and white, and phacelia, 
especially P. campanularia, with its blue bellflow- 
ers. 
Then there are three rayed annuals that are 
