PART TWO— THE KINDS OF 
PLANTS 
ANNUALS 
W HILE it is customary to say that 
spring bloom cannot be secured 
with annuals, it is possible to have a few 
in bloom, or very near it, indoors, ready 
to plant out the first day that conditions 
permit. And although this does not pro- 
vide the garden with flowers as early as 
flowers may be had when hardy bulbs and 
shrubs are established in it, it neverthe- 
less makes a very good beginning; and 
from this beginning on to the summer’s 
end, there need never be a day without 
quantities of flowers. 
This continuous bloom may be secured 
in two ways. One, which we may call the 
natural way, brings it about by the selec- 
tion of those varieties which naturally suc- 
ceed each other in development and period 
of bloom. The other — the artificial way 
— is by means of groups of successively 
maturing plants of anything preferred, 
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