Show Seeds of Many Annuals Is Can Withstand Cold Now By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor While seeds of the tender annuals may not safely be planted out doors yet there are a number which can ean withstand cold and which may be sown now wherever you wish them to bloom Moreover Moreover More More- over m many my of these annuals are not well weB known to the average amateur so you OU have the opportunity if yo you follow my advice of growing crowing some handsome flowers flo which will be a surprise to your garden friends Remember in placing these seeds in n the borders where you OU will later hope to see sec them in bloom that more seeds Leeds arc are killed by deep plantIng planting planting plant plant- ing than this world dreams of I There Is no hard and fast rule about th depth to plant anything but nit it is safe to say that no more than four times the thickness of the seed should cover it in soil I Never Over Inch I Hence very fine seeds need to be just pre pressed sed into the ground and none lone of ot them s should have ha an inch I of earth over them unless them unless they are leviathans This burying buryin of I seeds is is on one ne of the foremost causes of ot that f familiar familiar- chorus of the amateur amateur amateur ama ama- My seeds didn't come up this year S Amaranthus or to give it its romantic common name love love- lies-bleeding lies while often orten despised b by the gardener of several years years' i experience nevertheless makes a I showy splash in the garden that nothing else docs does and for the first year ear garden it is invaluable Sow the seeds v no now and in about a n we week lt if you keep the thc ground moist seedlings seedlings seedlings seed seed- lings will appear which will vill grow 30 inches or more in height making a really fine Cine display of ot crimson drooping flowers lowers from July until October or until cut down b by frost The calliopsis also is an annual of much merit and of the greatest ease case of culture Its s flowers flowers flow flaw ers lovely bright yellow ellow with dark brown centers thrive in in any sort of soil and any situation except in shade they also arc are fine line for cut cut- ting They will bloom from late June all aU the rest of ot the season if the seeds are sown now and if It flower lower heads arc are picked to prevent seed formation later Garden Necessity Baby's breath is a necessity in inthe Inthe inthe the garden because its dainty sprays of tiny w white ite flowers are so lovely for use with any ny other flowers Jowers In bouquets The perennial b baby's a bys by's breath of at course will not bloom this year from seed sown now but the annual variety ele- ele gans will make a delightful feathery feathery feath feath- ery cry effect from June through August August August Au Au- gust and into September from seeds sown now The plants grow about two feet tall and one thing which is s not generally known is that the baby's breath flourishes In as well as in sun Another little known annual flower flow flow- er is the tho crimson flax or rub rum Like its relative rela rein tive the blue flax lax the flowers last only for a day but so closel closely do the new ones follow on the heels of at the faded ones ones' that we dont don't notice the difference The lovely flowers arc are of an especially good shade of rosy red and seeds germinate in one week This plant must have sun |