ANNUAL GARDEN 
(SEE PLAN NO. 17) 
HIS garden is a representation of a typical annual cut-flower gar- 
den, grown as a part of a vegetable garden, partly screened from 
the lawn, with a few simple garden features, such as small rough 
trellises, simple seats, and straight walks to give it distinction. Most 
of the plan is self-explanatory. The walks are simply the earth packed 
down by the treading of feet, the beds are measured off each year, and 
outlined by stakes and strings until the seedlings have become easily 
visible. 
The narrow cross-paths are not much used as garden walks, but are 
put through simply to give ease in cultivation when the plants are young; 
later the blossoming plants will nearly hide them. The central path may 
be made usable in wet weather by a plank walk laid down in sections. 
In October we take up the three benches, the board walk, the 
poles of the arbor and those for the beans, and dig the bulbs and tubers. 
In late October or in early April we plow this area again along with the 
vegetable garden; fertilize, harrow, and rake; and again stake out the 
beds, somewhat as before, or differently in details. Thus the soil prep- 
aration will be easy but thorough. 
This garden will supply a small village with cut flowers if it thrives 
as it should, yet it will be no more care than a vegetable garden of the 
same size. All the sorts suggested may be sown directly in the ground in 
early May as they are all hardy species of annuals; many of them even 
will self-sow and make trouble the next season. Some of them may be 
_ started in flats and transplanted about a foot apart, except the edging 
plants which should be set or thinned to stand much more closely. Have 
an oversupply of seedlings and plant a reserve among the vegetables, to 
fill in wherever a plant fails. Poppies, Blanket Flower, Lupine, California 
Poppy, and others, do not transplant well, and must be sown in place. 
Large seeds as of Sunflower, Lupine, Castor Oil Bean, Four-o’clock, Nas- 
turtium, Morning Glory, and such should be placed separately at 
least a foot apart, as almost every seed will germinate under normal con- 
ditions. 
For this planting you should get seed from one of the larger seed 
houses that offers separate colors in the best of strains; bought from 
the grocery store you will get grocery store quality of bloom, and not 
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