FLOWERS 
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Annuals, biennials, and perennials each have 
their superior points, however, and each have 
their place in garden making. Only the plants 
which are already there when spring wakes 
the world are really worthy such a garden as 
each should be working for, however. Here 
and there a clump of the others may come in as 
the summer days lengthen and a bit of spare 
room shows itself; but let them be entertained 
as guests only, in the spare room; do not take 
them permanently into the family. 
For the temporary flowers or annuals are 
only temporary ; they grow rapidly and luxuri- 
antly after they start, it is true, and blossom 
freely. But they are not there at all during 
the wonderful weeks that follow the March or 
April reveille — and a garden barren at this 
time is no garden ! So plan for the hardy last- 
ing plants, the crocus and daffodil, the iris and 
peony and phlox and day lily, tall hollyhocks 
and low Columbines, blushing lupines, pale 
baneberry, and twinkling starwort. And ban- 
ish the salvia, the geranium, the fearful coleus 
— this not a flower but favored as flowers are 
and more strident than any — the canna and the 
elephant’s ear. The presence of these never 
adorned anything; their manners are too 
shocking. 
