trouble while we have the new Verbenas, Large-Flowered Phlox 
Drummondi and Diener's Ruflfled Petunias to take their place. 
But the Single Asters, (Sutton's Mame Gem, for instance) and 
the double delicate Pink Silenes, Annual Lupines, Statice Bonduelliy 
and the Blue Marguerite {Agatha Coelestis) are all English annuals 
that thrive with us, and are a little difi&cult to obtain. 
As for the seeds of choice perennials, Quarantine 37 has made it 
necessary for us to take the long, long road towards replenishing our 
war-worn borders. I hope that the nurserymen of America are 
working up a stock of the choicest varieties of the old French and 
Enghsh Garden Perennials, and that they will not present them to us 
as "Smith's Colossal New Giant Lupine" or "Schneider's Favorite 
Ncoelty Holly-hock Intincible" when the right name is Lupinus 
Arboreus and Althea Ficifolia. 
But seriously, this year we should have our perennial seed bed 
well stocked with the following, the seeds of which are hard to get in 
America: Aconitum Wilsoni; Alyssum Saxatile (Sutton's Silver 
Queen) Aquilegia {Long Spurred Hybrids and Munstead Giant White) 
Campanula Persicijolia "Telham Beauty"; Campanula Lactifiora; 
Campanula Grandiflora; True blue Catananche Caerulea; Delphinium; 
Lunaria Biennis, the White Variety only; Verbascum; Primrose, 
Munstead Variety; and Althea Ficifolia, which is used so much by 
Miss Jekyll. 
Conard & Jones' Catalogue has come and on page 49, after all the 
alluring Roses are listed, you will find a little "Seed Germination 
Table " which tells you at a glance how long it will be before you can 
expect to see your Httle seed friends' heads popping up through the soil. 
I have not seen such a table in a seed catalogue for years and it is a 
real help, for Bailey's Encyclopedia is far too large a volume to take 
out to the seed bed. 
We find a note in our Garden Diary dated last June which says: 
" Remember to order extra packages of the following for filling up bare 
spaces in the Hardy Border: AgeratumMexicanum; Alyssum; Pink 
Balsams; Calendula Meteor; Annual Baby's Breath; Candytuft." 
All these can be sowed on May first after the border is in order, in 
places they are to flower, simply thinning out if too thick. 
Rafi&a, too, has felt theH. C. L. Get a pound of it and a package 
of Rainbow green dye. After having soaked the Raffia first, boil it in 
an ordinary clothes boiler. It will make an inconspicuous dyeing ma- 
terial and does not come off on your hands. 
Every gardener has his or her favorite tool. Mine is the Eureka 
Weeder. Given that and a Ladies'-size Spade, $1 . 50, and the French 
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