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(3) *Blue Ageratum; 
blue Love-in-a-Mist 
^liss Jekyll); blue 
Cornflowers. 
(4) *Yellow Pansies 
(GiantGoldenQueen); 
*yellow Eschscholtzia; 
•yellow Calendula 
(must be cut to keep 
blooming). 
(5) Red Poppies 
and Cardinal flower; 
red Cockscombs (stay 
in bloom if not cut) or 
red VYrbenas; *Scarlet 
Sage. 
(6) *White Verbe- 
nas; white Balsams and 
Foiy-o’clocks; white 
Snow-on-t he- mo un- 
tain (stay in bloom if 
not cut). 
The seeds of these 
annuals all stand the 
winters and come up 
the next spring, in the 
latitude of Gettys- 
burg, Pa. 
The pink Lavatera, 
Scarlet Sage and Snow- 
on-the-mountain all 
grow high and should 
Be in the back beds to 
hide the fence. 
By planting alter- 
nate rows of Cardinal 
flower and red Pop- 
pies, the former will 
bloom and make a 
lovely bed after the 
•The flowers marked with a 
star will bloom all summer if 
not allowed to go to seed. 
This plan of the beds shows how the combinations were graded by height 
Poppies are over; and 
the Four-o’clocks will 
bloom all summer after 
the white Balsams are 
gone, and all will seed 
themselves. A few of 
these bloom and are 
over by the first of 
August, so each spring 
plant Asters in some of 
the beds to prolong 
their blooming period. 
Put Peerless Pink or 
late branching Asters 
in Shell Pink or in 
Rose Pink in the pink 
Poppy and Mallow 
beds, and White Fleece 
in the white Larkspur* 
bed. Put Lavender 
Gem Aster in with 
Love-in-a-Mist and 
Violet King in with 
Cornflowers. These 
Asters will not seed 
themselves and must 
be planted in May 
each year, but they 
repay the trouble. If 
the beds get shade in 
the afternoons, there 
will be little or no 
trouble with the aster 
bugs. 
Cover the beds with 
a thick layer of man- 
ure and straw each fall 
and rake it off in the 
spring and they will 
not have to be di.s- 
turbed for eight or ten 
years. 
This mass of flowers in summer is made by fall sowing of hardy aimuals 
