HOUSE AND GARDEN 
412 
May, 1913 
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Chicago 
Philadelphia 
Toronto, Can. 
Pittsburgh 
St. Louis 
. 35 West 31st Street 
900 S. Michigan Ave. 
1215 Walnut Street 
. 59 Richmond St. E. 
. 106 Federal Street 
100 N. Fourth Street 
Cincinnati . . 633 Walnut Street 
Nashville . 315 Tenth Avenue, So. 
New Orleans, Baronne & St.JosephSts. 
Montreal, Can. . 215 Coristine Bldg. 
Boston . . John Hancock Bldg. 
Louisville . 319-23 W. Main Street 
Cleveland . 648 Huron Road, S.E. 
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London, 57-60 Holborn Viaduct,E.C. 
Houston, Tex., Preston and Smith Sts. 
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Toledo. Ohio . 311-321 Erie Street 
Fort Worth. Tex., Front and Jones Sts. 
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tion whenever it chooses? Lavish annuals 
on it in any measure for summer glory, 
only do not leave the garden bare before 
and after. This is easily got around by 
pardonable inconsistency. In October 
plant the garden with tulips, hyacinths and 
other spring bulbs. Edge formal beds or 
borders with hardy candytuft, for a per¬ 
manent thing; with pansies, Beilis peren- 
nis, Myosotis dissitiflora or Arabis albida 
for spring bloom or with violas (tufted 
pansies) for summer flowers. All of these 
plants can be set out in October, and with 
the exception of the candytuft any of them 
are suitable for places between the bulbs, 
which they follow immediately in bloom 
when the period is not coincident; the 
arabis and myosotis are especially good 
with early tulips, or late ones if care is 
taken as to the color that goes with the 
myosotis. 
Late in May, when the bulb foliage is 
turning brown, remove any other plants 
that are not used for edging and set an¬ 
nuals in all the available spaces. Or the 
bulbs may be taken up, dried off and reset 
in the autumn. If this is done throughout, 
or here and there, the garden may be given 
a riot of autumn color by massings of 
hardy chrysanthemums. It is not neces¬ 
sary that the chrysanthemums should be 
potted ones; they may be plants from cut¬ 
tings rooted in the spring and grown on in 
rows, as they will bear moving even when 
in bloom. 
Start the annuals, other than poppies, 
eschscholzia and sweet alyssum, early by 
sowing seed in a coldframe soon after the 
first of May. Keep the plants under 
glass until the end of the month, or later 
if the garden is not ready for them. Do 
not let them get spindling; this is the ob¬ 
jection to starting the seeds in the house 
in boxes in April. If started still earlier 
in a greenhouse, in March, they can be 
potted and put in the garden as good-sized 
plants; but they will reach up for the 
light and are apt to go outdoors in a weak¬ 
ened condition. 
Annuals that are a long time reaching 
maturity—such as helichrysum, the finest 
of all the everlastings, and the old type of 
cosmos—ought never to be sown in the 
open ground. The fascinating salpiglos- 
sis, also, is sown early under glass to in¬ 
sure bloom. Then there is the sweet sul¬ 
tan, which likes to get an early start so 
that it may give of its best before the heat 
of midsummer. 
An effective way of using annuals is as 
pot plants—not only to fill spaces in the 
greenhouse but for the porch in summer 
and for setting among shrubbery or in 
garden blanks. A great deal of this is 
done in England, where some potted an¬ 
nuals are superb specimen plants that 
cause eyes not familiar with them to open 
wide with wonder. Think of bushes of 
Clarkia elegans, a yard high and through, 
that are a mass of double pink or salmon 
blossoms! These are May possibilities if 
the seed is sown indoors in September 
and the plants potted and pinched back to 
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