14 A LITTLE GARDEN THE YEAR ROUND 



fuls, say, to a square rod being ample, or some- 

 what less if barnyard manure (better for dry 

 soils) is used. 



Annuals bloom more freely the more fre- 

 quently they are cut. Sweet Peas, Mignon- 

 ette, Gaillardia, Nicotiana, Nasturtiums, Core- 

 opsis, Love-in-a-Mist, Sweet William — ^how 

 could we get along without them! Often it 

 happens that a severe winter wreaks havoc in 

 the perennial border. With the advent of 

 Spring we find bare spots in the garden bor- 

 ders where there should be plants. Too late 

 it is to move other perennials to fill these gaps 

 and it is in such instances that we again real- 

 ize how very necessary the spring-planted flow- 

 ers are to every garden, as annuals can be used 

 for filling up the borders. Then our gardens 

 would have whole dreary stretches of flowerless 

 plants during those periods which await the 

 time of blossoming perennials were it not for 

 annuals. The newly made garden becomes a 

 joyful sight the first season by reason of a 

 profusion of properly planted annuals. The 

 Spring weeks will be slipping by speedily, and 

 how glad the garden-beginner will be to have 

 given thought in time to Spring planting prob- 



