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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



May, 1908 





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N. B. writes to ask how to manage annual 

 plants in the flower garden. 



They are hard to arrange in the flower gar- 

 den because many, like the poppy, look shabby 

 when through blooming; or, like the asters, 

 bloom late, and are uninteresting before they 

 bloom. Dividing them into two classes in an- 

 other way there are some which are indispens- 

 able for use in the house, like the sweet peas, 

 asters and nasturtiums, and others which are 

 remarkable for their profusion of bloom and 

 the strong masses of color they give in the 

 garden. Such are the marigolds, zinnias and 

 poppies — which few people care to bring into 

 the house. 



Annuals and bulbs do very well in the 

 same beds. Thus a bed which was full of 

 tulips in the spring will in August be a mass 

 of zinnias perhaps, and give us two seasons of 

 bloom with half the usual space required for 

 two different flowers. The marigold can be 

 sown among early tulips or in a seed bed, and 

 afterward transplanted to the tulip bed with- 

 out taking up the tulips. 



Poppy seed sprinkled on the last snow in 

 April over a tulip bed will germinate early, 

 cover the ground with green, and the poppies 

 will begin to bloom soon after the tulips are 

 past and when their leaves are shriveling. 

 (Sprinkling seed on the snow is good, because 

 one can see where the seed falls and distribute 

 it evenly.) When the poppies are gone zinnias 

 may be taken from the seed bed to fill their 

 place, and the zinnias will bloom until the 

 frost kills them. 



Ageratum can be planted with white or yel- 

 low English or Spanish iris, which will grow 

 up through the ageratum, bloom and then 

 wither, while the ageratum continues to bloom. 

 Centaurea also may have a few English iris 

 with it. 



Annual pinks do well with things like the 

 Dodecatheon, which blooms early, and with- 

 out some annual would leave the ground bare 

 after June. In the same way the annual 

 Eschscholtzia can be sown among plants of 

 Mertensia, which is gone by the first days of 

 summer. 



Nasturtiums should have cedar posts six 

 feet high, with the branches on, set in the 

 garden. The nasturtiums look well near the 

 cabbage bed. Cosmos, asters, mignonette and 

 petunia should be grown in the vegetable gar- 

 den. They can follow early peas, or may 

 have their special place in a "cut-flower" 

 garden. 



The sweet peas need the cultivation and 

 watering and extra attention they will get in 

 the vegetable garden, and they should be 

 grown as other peas are. The flowers must 

 not be allowed to remain on the vine a day 

 after they are open — they might even be picked 

 a little before they open, as one flower allowed 

 to go to seed means decreased bloom. 



These flowers in the vegetable garden will 

 improve the appearance of that garden with 

 their gay colors, and make it more pleasant to 

 look at and to walk in. The vegetables them- 

 selves are fine to look at. Is there a hand- 

 somer plant than a pepper or one more grace- 

 ful than corn ? Cabbages are beautiful in 

 color and opulent in form. 



One sometimes hesitates to cut the flowers 

 in the flower garden for fear of spoiling the 

 effect, but when they are grown as vegetables 

 are, for a large yield, one can scarcely use 

 all the blooms, and the garden will be as gay 

 as before. Another advantage is that the 

 strong colors of annuals are sometimes hard 

 to arrange in a flower garden where there are 



