Annuals 
3i 
Summer cypress ( Kochia trichophylla) is 
a perfectly symmetrical, formal, egg- 
shaped little pyramid: for this reason it 
is adapted to exactly the same positions 
that any pyramidal, formal plant may oc- 
cupy. Being of symmetrical shape, it 
naturally forms an ideal low hedge, bor- 
der, or edging, when the plants are set 
shoulder to shoulder — so it may, with per- 
fect propriety, be used in this way, and 
still not be used “ in imitation ” of some- 
thing else. 
I make this somewhat elaborate ex- 
planation because I do not wish to be un- 
derstood as ever advocating the use of one 
thing to imitate another. That is un- 
necessary, to say nothing of its being the 
extreme of bad taste. A garden of annu- 
als should not be planted with the idea of 
imitating a garden of perennials — they 
are two distinct kinds of flower garden — 
but the same rules govern the grouping of 
flowers, whatever they may be; and the 
result of conforming to these rules will be 
good in either case, without either being an 
imitation of the other. 
If your garden is to follow a conven- 
tional design, uniform edgings to the bor- 
