HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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April, 1910 
Nicotiana is an excellent plant for mass effects, flowering profusely. 
It loves a hot, rich soil 
Verbenas, with their lovely bloom and delicate fragrance, should be 
grown by everyone 
Scabiosa, attractive for 
cutting 
California Poppies, yellow to 
orange in color 
SORTS OF PLANTS 
Your flower plants will of course 
be of two sorts, annuals (which die, 
root and branch, at the end of 
every season and have to be planted 
anew from seed every year) and 
perennials (hardy shrub-like plants 
that survive from year to year and 
which spring up anew from their 
roots from season to season). Per¬ 
ennials seldom blossom until the 
second season after planting from 
seed, and so the annuals are the 
plants to which the amateur gar¬ 
dener turns when in need of flower 
effects the first year. If you have 
not had an opportunity of starting 
perennials, you may obtain grown 
plants from your florists, and after 
these have found themselves at home 
in your garden they will increase, 
with care, year after year, until you 
in turn will be able to exchange with 
your gardening neighbors. Thus one 
may have all sorts of beautiful flow¬ 
ers in his first year’s garden. 
TRANSPLANTING 
Some species do not bear trans¬ 
planting, therefore one should never 
attempt to transplant seedlings of 
Candytuft, Love-in-a-mist, Lupine, 
Mignonette, Nasturtium or Poppy. 
WHAT TO PLANT 
The accompanying table is de¬ 
signed to guide the beginner at 
flower gardening to the standard 
Sweet Alyssum edging a bed of bright colored Zinnias 
annuals and perennials everyone 
may grow almost anywhere. It indi¬ 
cates time of sowing, blossoming, 
etc., which information everyone 
planting a flower-garden will find 
most useful to have for reference. 
For all general purposes the I plants 
in this table have been divided into 
perennials, annuals, and biennials, 
indicated by the letters P, B, A. 
Many of the perennials may be 
treated as annuals, certain annuals as 
biennials and certain biennials as 
annuals. Therefore, some of the 
species in the list are prefixed by 
two or more letters. As the Chim¬ 
ney Bellflower ( Campanula pyramid- 
alis), Rocky Mountain Columbine 
(Aquilegia ccerulea), and Iceland 
Poppy ( Papaver nudiculce), are so 
short-lived at best, they may, for all 
purposes, be treated as biennials. 
As the wise among mankind are 
those to whom far-sightedness is sure 
to bring its rewards, so, among 
gardenkind, looking ahead will help 
one along the pleasant paths of garden 
making. 
Everyone should try to picture the 
garden as it will appear in its wealth 
of bloom, long after the dull colored 
earth has donned its garb of green and 
gorgeous color. If the garden maker 
will do this he will not wake up to find 
that he has planted scarlet Gladioli 
next to delicate pink Cosmos, purple 
Iris next to blue Campanula, nor 
mixed the exquisite Love-in-a-mist 
with blatant Zinnias. 
Schizanthus, yellow to lilac 
The Delphinium or 
Larkspur 
Nasturtiums are not to be surpassed for foliage and cutting 
