24 Making a Garden to Bloom This Year 
what yours is, first of all. What do you 
want? Brilliance and show? Or fra- 
grance? Or perfection of specimens? Or 
size and number of flowers? Or a gen- 
eral effect? Or a color scheme? What 
have you in mind — what visualizes before 
your inner eye when you think about 
and anticipate your garden? When 
you have answered yourself this ques- 
tion, select accordingly. Perhaps the 
study of just one species may seem 
more worth while than anything else. 
Asters, for example, in all their varieties, 
are so beautiful and so varied that there 
will be no monotony in a garden which 
grows just them alone: the annual phlox, 
ranging through a great number of colors, 
possesses great variety; or a garden de- 
voted to the multitude of exquisite poppies 
which the market affords will be a wonder- 
ful place. Select every variety of the 
flower chosen, if you elect a specialty 
garden of this sort, or, at least, all of the 
choicest varieties. 
But it is absolutely necessary to have 
more than one species if early bloom is 
desired, for the annuals which will af- 
ford anything like spring blossoms are 
