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bed, or the spaces left in your borders, smooth, 
well water the bed with a fine-rosed watering 
can, scatter your seed broadcast and thinly. 
Have ready some fine dry soil or finest grit, and 
just cover your seed with it. This is better 
than having to water the seeds, as the soil is 
certain to cake. A sharp, gritty soil is best to 
cover the seeds with. The following are 
annuals suitable for hot, dry soils, sand or gravel, 
or for borders quickly burned up by sun. 
Nasturtiums in all colours (Empress of India, 
with blue-green leaves and crimson flowers, is 
especially fine). 
Eschscholzia, the golden poppy of California, 
and its improved form, Mandarin, bright 
orange. These can now be had in double 
forms and in rose colour. 
Calendula also in the single and double 
forms. Tagetes, linum, marigold — French and 
English and African — also the corn marigold, 
flowering well into late October, which, though 
a wild plant, is of great beauty, with glaucous 
leaves. Poppies and cornflowers, zinnias, sun- 
flowers, nemophila, candytuft, Bartonia aurea , 
Dimorphotheca , Nemesia strumosa . All these, 
with the exception of zinnias and sunflowers, 
should be sown in early March where they are 
to flower, or in April if in a cold, stiff 7 soil, or if 
