The wisest fertilizer to use for Annuals seems to be powdered Fertilizer 
Sheep manure. for 
Annuals 
novelities 
IN Annual 
Seeds 
It is always well to try a few novelties, or at least varieties which 
are new to you, each year. If you have not planted the following, 
do try them this Spring: — 
Dwarf yellow Lupine; blue Phacelia (the quickest annual to bloom) ; 
Linum Grandiflor rubrum (scarlet flax, fine behind creamy Eschschol- 
tzias); Jocobea (white); Collinsia (white). 
Matthiola Bicornis heads the list as the sweetest scented annual, Sweet- 
although it only exhales its perfume after nightfall. Plant it where it Scented 
is to bloom near the veranda or doorstep, where it can be " smelt but Annuals 
not seen," as it is a homely little mess in the daytime. Nicotine too 
should be planted where the evening breeze can blow its fragrance 
toward the open windows. Nycterina and Hebenstreitia are two other 
very sweet scented, inconspicuous plants which are little known here. 
Of course. Mignonette and Clove Pinks should be allowed to sweeten 
every garden. 
Some of the inconspicuous little feathery Annuals are invaluable Annuals 
as auxiliary plants for table decorations. We found, last season, that for 
Coriander (listed under herb seeds), white Linaria; Asperula (mauve). Feathery 
Gypsophila elegans in pink and white, and the ornamental grasses — Effects 
Stipapennaia and Agrostis nebulosa, were invaluable. 
Those who have seen the arrangements of "everlasting" flowers, Everlast- 
in pewter and copper bowls, at the Cosnaopolitan Club this season, ing Flowers 
will not need to be urged to grow these "Souvenirs des Jardins." 
The most brilliant is "Christmas Cheer" winter cherry, but that and 
the Silvery Honesty are perennial and biennial. The Helichrysum, 
Acroclinium, Xeranthemum, Rhodanthe, and Statice Sinuata are all 
Annuals. 
Mrs. Seabury, who searched the English gardens for choice New Eng- 
novelties last fall, reports a marvelous new race of hardy perennial lish 
Scabious, something like our Scabious Caucasia. Quarantine 37 will Scabious 
not allow us to bring in the plants — they are hybrids in named 
varieties— but a limited amount of the seeds can be obtained from 
their originator, Isaac House & Son, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, 
England. I imagine a dollar bill enclosed in a fetching note on Garden 
Club paper would do the trick; at least, I shall try it. Mrs. Seabury 
also reported a number of choice new Roses, new Phloxes, fringed 
Dahlias, etc. ; and she is keen about the use of Erigeron. 
In a perennial seed-bed let us start a stock of choice seedlings for Perennial 
planting out next faU, such as: Arenaria (for a border plant); Shasta Seeds 
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