WHERE TO PLANT 



In planting for a long blooming season, crowding is 

 more or less necessary. A careful staking and care 

 to remove unnecessary foliage will prevent injury to 

 a small plant in danger of being overshadowed by a 

 large one. Let hidden stakes support the larger plants 

 for the preservation of their symmetry, as well as for 

 the life of the smaller neighbors. 



THE SCALLOPED EDGE 



When a wall bed is suflBciently deep and long — not 

 less than 12 by 25 feet — an effective finish to the front 

 is produced by sowing Sweet Alyssimi in scallops, 

 using slightly taller annuals like Petunias to fiU the 

 scallops. See Plate VI and Chart X. 



The scallops may measure about 2 to 3 feet in depth, 

 and 3 to 5 feet across the top from point to point, 

 which allows 5 to 8 scallops to a 25-foot bed. There 

 should be a space of from 4 to 6 inches between the 

 edge of the bed and lower end of curve. This space 

 can hold two lines of Sweet Alyssum, the lines in- 

 creasing in the wider spaces. Within the curves may 

 be placed Pansies in separate colors for early bloom, 

 followed by such long blooming annuals as pink Pe- 

 tunia, dwarf yellow Calliopsis, fibrous Begonia, Ver- 

 bena, Ageratum, Dianthus, or others of about the 

 same height. It will take possibly twenty-five of such 

 plants to fill a large curve, except in the case of Ver- 



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