ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS 



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Senecio cjnbrarioides and Gentaurea gymnocabpa (Dusty Miller). 



Unexcelled for gray effects. 

 Pennisetum (Fountain Grass). Dainty and graceful hairy spikes. 

 Amaranthus caudatus (Love-Lies-Bleeding). Foliage deep maroon often. 

 Mex^ican Horned Poppy. The deep green leaves are veined with white. 

 Phalaris arundinacea, vab. picta (Ribbon Grass). A very useful grass 



for bouquets as well as landscape effect. 

 HoRDEUM JUBATUM (Squirrel's Tail Grass). Spike resembles a squirrel's 



tail. Adds a very graceful touch to the border or bouquet. 

 KocHiA TRiCHOPHYLLA (Summer Cypress). Makes a. formal cypress-Uke 



plant. In Autumn turns a bluish crimson, at which time it seems a 



poor color: 

 Zea Mays japonica (Variegated Com). 



Biennials. There is a class of plants which lives but two years. 

 The seed can be sown the Summer or early Autumn one year ; the 



young plants 

 form a rosette of 

 leaves but do 

 not bloom until 

 the following 

 year, after which 

 they usually die. 

 Such plants are 

 called biennials. 

 ' One of our com- 

 monest garden 

 plants is a bienni- 

 al, namely, Fox- 

 glove. Many 

 other plants are 

 best treated as 

 biennials, as, for 



Hedge of Morning Glories 



example, some Campanulas, Hollyhocks, Anchusa and Sweet William, 

 all of which decline at two years. There are few plants to rival the 

 Foxglove; it possesses such excellent foUage that nothing need ever 

 be planted at its base; besides, the stately spires of inverted glove 

 fingers are most attractive. 



Biennials are best protected by pulling the leaves together and 

 packing straw between them, in which case they seem to Winter 

 nicely. If poorly protected the center of the plant decays, leaving it 

 hollow; the stems then do not become strong enough to bear the truss 

 of bloom; at the same time the excellent foliage is entirely gone. This 

 is too often the case with the beautiful Canterbury Bells (Campanula 

 Medium) , which should not be too thickly covered but properly handled. 



