CHAPTER III 
Flowers that Must be Renewed 
Every Year--(Annuals) 
And ’tis my faith that every flower enjoys the 
air it breathes. 
—Wordsworth. 
If you want flowers that grow quickly, plant 
annuals! Some will bloom within six weeks, so if 
you can help out meantime with some transplanted 
roots and bulbs, you will have flowers from the first 
of the season. 
“Plant thickly,’’ says one writer. ‘‘It is easier 
and more profitable to grow flowers than weeds.’’ 
The following annuals can be sown outdoors late 
in April, as far North as New York, in ordinary 
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