30 Making a Garden to Bloom This Year 
available for special places. So it is safe 
to say that no location need be without 
flowers altogether, however unfavorable 
its conditions may seem. And even the 
unenclosed dooryard, lying open to the 
street, may be given a certain amount of 
distinction by being 66 hedged 55 with castor 
beans, reinforced with the giant spider 
flower ; or sunflowers, tall-growing grasses, 
and dainty summer cypress. Indeed, quite 
an impenetrable thicket may be set up, 
with the rank growers for a backing, and 
lower-growing things in front to fill the 
gaps ; and the summer cypress lends itself 
to the edging of walks or inclosing beds 
or borders in a very charming fashion, 
quite suggestive of permanent green 
edgings. 
Right here, however, let me say that it 
is never necessary nor desirable to imitate 
with annuals the effects of permanent 
plantings ; this is very far from being the 
suggestion which I would convey in men- 
tioning this use of summer cypress. But 
a plant whose habit is such that it is dis- 
tinctly valuable in certain positions, 
should occupy those positions regardless 
of whether it is an annual or a perennial. 
