'orhes Choice Seeds 
of Annual Flowers 
A NNUALS are flowers which sprout from seed, grow, flower, fruit, and die all within 
the limits of the garden year. They require the long daylight of summer. 
They have many advantages. Being inexpensive, they appeal equally to both 
the home renter and the home owner. They bring a lengthy season of profuse bloom and 
scent. They are indispensable as filling-in plants in the perennial garden when winter- 
killing, disease, or natural dying back of bulbs and plants causes wide gaps of earth to 
mar the effect of the whole. They flaunt their beauty for the garden year and then give 
themselves up to the work of seeding; many self-sow and are practically permanent. 
They are fitted for every use, and where there is no ground. Annuals brighten the lives of 
the city dweller, either in pots or window-boxes and in the garden plots of school children. 
Annuals have a delicate beauty all their own and may furnish material for a whole 
garden or for the cutting border, to supply cut-flowers for home decoration. 
Seeds of Annuals unless otherwise noted, should be started indoors in a light, enriched, 
sifted soil. If clay predominates in the soil, mix it with sand or cinders. Drench the soil 
of 3-inch flats or of clean, scraped pots with Semesan to sterilize it, so that damping-off, 
a fungous disease, will not occur. Sow seeds in flats in rows; or in pots in a spiral. Large 
seeds should be covered with sand to the depth of three times their diameter. Sow each 
Annual by itself. Fine seeds should be sown in soil that has been watered first and should 
be covered not with soil but with tissue paper. A sheet of glass over the pot or flat con¬ 
serves moisture. After the first true leaves appear, first water, pinch back and on a dull day 
transplant seedlings, later thinning out and weeding so that they do not get spindly. 
When sowing outdoors in ground, prepare the soil deeply, enrich and rake well. Water 
thoroughly once, rather than sprinkle often. Later keep a dust-mulch with a hoe. 
special Offer of Flower Seed Packets 
Your selection of any 10-cent packets: 12 for $1; 25 for $2; 40 for $2.75 
Annual Flower Seeds 
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