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blues. Some of the larkspurs and the browallias are perhaps 
the nearest approach to them. 
For lower-growing and less gross mass-displays, the following 
are good: California poppies for oranges and yellows; sweet 
sultans for purples, whites, and pale yellows; petunias for 
purples, violets, and whites; larkspurs for blues and violets; 
bachelor’s buttons (or cornflowers) for blues; calliopsis and 
coreopsis and calendulas for yellows; gaillardias for red-yellows 
and orange-reds; China asters for many colors. 
For still less robustness, good mass-displays can be made with 
the following: alyssums and candytufts for whites; phloxes for 
whites and various pinks and reds; lobelias and browallias for 
blues; pinks for whites and various shades of pink; stocks 
for whites and reds; wallflowers for brown-yellows; verbenas for 
many colors. 
A garden of pleasant annual flowers is not complete that: 
does not contain some of the “everlastings” or immortelles. 
These “paper flowers” are always interesting to children. 
They are not so desirable fcr th: making of “dry bouquets” 
as for their value as a part of a garden. The colors are bright, 
the blooms hold long on the plant, and most of the kinds are 
very easy to grow. My favorite groups are the different kinds 
of xeranthemums and helichrysums. The globe amaranths, 
with clover-like heads (sometimes known as bachelor’s but- 
tons), are good old favorites. Rhodanthes and acrocliniums 
are also good and reliable. 
The ornamental grasses should not be overlooked. They add 
a note to the flower-garden and to bouquets that is distinct 
and can be secured by no other plants. They are easily grown. 
Some of the good annual grasses are Agrostis nebulosa, the 
brizas, Bromus brizeformis, the species of eragrostis and pennise- 
tums, and Coiz Lachryma as a curiosity. Such good lawn 
grasses as arundo, pampas-grass, eulalias, and erianthus are 
perennials and are therefore not included in this discussion. 
