ANNUALS AND BULBS 
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tones. Others that will stand shade are 
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candytuft, lupins, larkspurs, mallow, cosmos 
(if sown early enough), and Venus’ navel-wort, 
a pretty white flower with grey-green leaves, 
best sown in place in autumn. 
The seed of biennials for the herbaceous 
border needs to be sown in March, thinned 
out or transplanted, and transferred to the 
border in September or in early spring. 
They include the following : — 
Canterbury Bells. — -Blue, white, mauve, pink — double and 
single ; 2^ feet. Sow April. 
‘ Digitalis (Foxglove). — Yellow, white, rose, purple. Sow 
April — shady border ; 3 and 4 feet. 
Lupinus arboreus. — Yellow and white. Sow in April and 
May — any soil or aspect. Transplant into shady border in 
September. Flowers in July ; 4 to 5 feet. 
Lupinus polyphyllus Blue, white, yellow, pink. Sow 
April — any soil or aspect ; 3 feet. 
Myosotis. — Good carpet plant. Sow in open ground, 
May and July. Varieties : — Alpestris, deep blue ; Azorica, 
violet blue ; Dissitiflora, light blue ; Stricta, deep blue, 
upright habit of growth ; Rosy Gem, pink ; Royal Blue, 
or Indigo, deep blue ; Palustris semperflorens, clear blue, 
blooms from early spring till late autumn, and is as good 
in the border as by the waterside. 
(Enothera. — Acaulis, white ; sow April, shady border ; 
6 inches. Afterglow, yellow with red calyx ; sow April, 
shady border ; 3 feet. Biennis gran di flora, sow April, shady 
border \ 4 feet. 
Pansy. — Sow April, May, or June, open ground ; will 
flower spring, summer, and autumn if seed-pods are 
