A New Way tO Select Annuals— By Thomas Murray, 



Tuxedo, 

 N. Y. 



FOLLOW THIS PLAN, INSTEAD OF THE OLD HIT OR MISS WAY, AND YOU WILL SAVE A LOT OF WORK, 

 HAVE MORE CUT FLOWERS, A BETTER DESIGN AND THE BEST COLOR HARMONIES YOU HAVE EVER HAD 



HPHE wrong way to make out your seed 

 -■■ order is to check off the items in a 

 seed catalogue that happen to strike your 

 fancy and trust to luck that you will use them 

 all and the colors will all gibe. The right 

 way is to make a rough pencil sketch of each 

 place where you want flowers and then aim 

 directly at artistic effects. 



For example, make a sketch of the beds 

 in front of your house. Then decide what 

 permanent vines you will want and locate 

 them in the sketch. Then choose your 

 annual vines, with due thought of color. 



Finally, put in your low, or bedding, annuals 

 and your color scheme is complete. 



Last April we published a "Classified 

 Planting List for Annuals" showing thirteen 

 special purposes to which certain annuals 

 are adapted, but here is a much better idea, 

 for the following list shows first of all the five 

 most important objects which we ought to aim 

 at in buying flower seeds, viz. cut flowers, 

 mass effects, temporary vines, edgings and 

 the beautifying of rough places. Clearly, 

 color is the second most important consider- 

 ation; season of bloom, the third and height 



the fourth. Precisely this order is followed 

 below save that the season of bloom is not 

 given, as that is best supplied from your own 

 garden diary or from the catalogue of the 

 best seedsmen in your vicinity. Instead of 

 season of bloom, which you can get in any 

 catalogue, Mr. Murray gives the duration of 

 bloom in weeks which is even more import- 

 ant in helping to save your money and the 

 kind of thing you can never get in catalogues. 

 Valuable information concerning where 

 to plant and how to grow these annuals will 

 be found on page 176. — The Editors. 



The Most Useful Annuals for Cutflowers 



COMMON NAME 



Ageratum 



Giant comet aster 



Victoria aster 



Jubilee aster 



Cornflower 



Navy Blue sweet pea 



Dwarf lobelia 



Giant-flowering snapdragon 



Klondyke cosmos 



Stella sunflower 



African marigold 



Tom Thumb nasturtium. . 

 Double Mammoth zinnia. . 



Victoria aster 



Branching aster 



Jubilee aster 



Clarkia 



La Malmaison balsam.. 



Blanche Ferry sweet pea 



Sander's tobacco 



Drummond's phlox 



Mammoth verbena 



SCIENTIFIC NAME HEIGHT 



(inches) 



BLUE 



Ageratum conyzoides 10 



Calhstephus horten- 



Sls . 15 



Calhstephus horten- 



sis 18 



Calhstephus horten- 



sis 24 



Centaurea Cyanus 24 



Lathyrus odoratus 60 



Lobelia Erinus 6 



YELLOW 



Antirrhinum mafus 24 



Cosmos sulphureus 48 



Hehanthus debihs, var. 



Stella 36 



Tagetes erect a 24 



T ropceolum minus 12 



Zinnia elegans 24 



PINK 



Calhstephus horten- 



sis 1 



Calhstephus horten- 



sis 5 24 



Calhstephus horten- 



sis 24 



Clarkia elegans 18 



Impatiens Balsam- 



ina 20 



Lathyrus odoratus 48 



Nicotiana Sanderce 30 



Phlox Drummondu 18 



Verbena hybrida 12 



DURATION 

 OF BLOOM 



(weeks) 



COMMON NAME 



SCIENTIFIC NAME 



All summer 



Four 



Four 



Four 

 Till frost 

 Eight 

 All summer 



Eight 

 Six 



Ten 



Twelve 

 Twelve 

 Fifteen 



8 Foi 



Four 



Four 

 Six 



Eight 



Eight 



Eight 



Twelve 



Ten 



DURATION 

 HEIGHT or BLOOM 



(inches) (weeks) 



Giant-flowering snapdragon Antirrhinum majus 24 



White Bentley aster Calhstephus hortensts 24 



Annual chrysanthemum . . . Chrysanthemum coron- 



anum 18 



Giant-flowering cosmos. . . Cosmos bipinnatus 48 



Baby's breath Gypsophila paniculata . ... 12 



Emily Henderson sweet pea Lathyrus odoratus 60 



Ten weeks stock Matthiola incana, var. 



annua 15 



White swan poppy Papaver somniferum 24 



RED AND SCARLET 



Giant aster Calhstephus hortensis 24 



Jubilee aster Calhstephus hortensis 24 



Victoria aster Calhstephus hortensis 18 



Giant flowering cosmos. . . Cosmos bipinnatus 48 



Salopian sweet pea Lathryus odoratus 60 



Ten weeks stock Matthiola incana, var. 



annua 15 



Bonfire salvia Salvia splendens 24 



Peony-flowered aster. . . 

 Late-branching aster. . . 



Victoria aster 



Double purple balsam. 

 Ten weeks stock 



Giant Bluebird petunia . 

 Carnation-flowered poppy 



Peony-flowered poppy . 

 Mammoth verbena.... 



LILAC AND PURPLE 



. . Calhstephus hortensis 24 



. . Calhstephus hortensis 24 



. . Calhstephus hortensis 18 



. . Impatiens Balsamina 20 



. . Matthiola incana, var. 



annua 15 



. . Petunia hybrida 18 



Papaver somniferum, 



var. fimbriatum 24 



Papaver somniferum, 



var. pasonueflorum 24 



Verbena hybrida 12 



The Best Annuals for Mass Effects 



BLUE 



Tom Thumb ageratum. . . . Ageratum conyzoides 6 



Amethyst Browalha demissa(B. elata)iS 



Slender lobelia Lobelia Erinus, var. gracilis .9 



Crystal Palace lobelia Lobelia Erinus, var. compacta 6 



YELLOW 



Double Sulphur rose moss. Portulaca grandifiora 6 



African marigold Tagetes erecta 24 



All summer 

 All summer 

 All summer 

 All summer 



Twelve 

 Twelve 



Dwarf nasturtium 



Double Mammoth zinnia. 



RED AND SCARLET 



Love-lies-bleeding Amarantus caudatus 30 



Giant snapdragon Antirrhinum majus 30 



Globe amaranth Gomphrina globosa 18 



Double rose moss Portulaca grandifiora 6 



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Eight 

 Four 



Twelve 

 Six 



Twelve 

 Six 



Ten 

 Five 



Four 



Four 



Four 



Six 



Eight 



Ten 

 Twelve 



Four 

 Four 

 Four 



Eight 



Ten 

 Ten 



Five 



Five 

 Ten 



Tropceolum minus 12 Twelve 



Zinnia elegans 20 Fifteen 



Ten 

 Eight 

 Ten 

 Twelve 





