Ways of Using Annuals and Biennials 
flower borders, but there are climbers to form 
arches and bowers or to train up house-walls, 
and there are the giant gourds and others of 
curious shapes and brilliant colourings, with 
which any roughly constructed pergola may be 
quickly covered. The same gourds, both large 
and small, also serve to cover any unsightly 
heap or mound of rubbish or bare bank, and 
are all the better for the company of the gorgeous 
trailing Nasturtiums. 
A Rose garden has often unbeautiful bare 
spaces of earth ; here nothing is more delightful 
than wide sowings of Mignonette ; if the roots 
of the annual claim something of the goodness 
of the bed the slight degree of exhaustion is 
more than compensated by the spreading plants 
covering the ground surface and keeping it cool. 
Small bare spaces at the foot of shrubs near 
paths should be sown with Matthiola bicornis, 
the Night-scented Stock, a modest plant that 
has no particular beauty by day but gives out 
a delicious fragrance in the evening. 
For beds by themselves or for larger spaces 
between shrubs, or for any place where a tem- 
porary filling is desired of plants of important 
aspect, there are the Tobacco plants ( Nicotiana ), 
the tall hardy Balsams (. Imp aliens ), Maize, 
Castor Oil plants, Mulleins, Foxgloves, Solanums, 
and Lavatera. Then, again, for beds or for filling 
spaces in borders of perennials there is the whole 
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