Show Sow Biennials Now for fOl Next Years Year's s Blooms By MAUD 1 CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden 1 Editor Gardeners should plant seeds o of bi biennials which they hope to have In bloom next year now floW without delay Otherwise they will be forced to go the whole of ot next season without without without with with- out bloom from train these plants The Canterbury bell is one of ot the most popular of ot the biennials anc and rightly so because it makes a spoof spot of bright color and graceful form In any border Recently I saw the finest row of oC these flowers that I have ever seen This was at the Mexican mission in Salt Lake City and the seeds of the flowers had been sent from Mexico City The blooms were pink blue whito white and purple in the cup and saucer type and extremely large It If the seeds had not been sown the previous year that array of loveliness would never have ma- ma Treat as WI Biennials me Fors which seed them them- selves in some lome gardens but absolutely absolutely refuse to do so in others should be treated as biennials usually ally lly and seeds of them should be obtained now and sown at once Such plants will bloom next spring There is nothing better for low mass planting than the me forget-me- not and it is charming when used as an edging to beds of ot tulips or other spring flowering bulbs Have Haye Havea Hayea a large supply of young plants on hand for you will find innumerable places in which to transplant them next year The Tho seeds of the not me may be sown broadcast ln in a sheltered shel shel- and shady place being barely covered with fine lne soil or with pure clean sand Germination is usually quite prompt Transplanting of the tiny seedlings seedlings seed- seed lings ings as soon as as' as they have reached a size that they can be handled will insure stronger and bushier plants plant This second place may have more sun than the first seed bed Attention Necessary After you have set out the baby plants five or six inches apart give them thorn hem good attention the rest of this season and by next spring they may be put wherever yo you wish their heavenly blue flowers to appear Few other plants in your garden will call forth so many cries of pleasure from visitors to your garden garden garden gar gar- den as the me forget The iridescent seed filaments of the he honesty which are so popular for or winter house decoration may be grown in your own garden from seeds eeds sown now This plant lunaria also known as money plant and silver silv sil sU- sil- sil v ver r shilling and Peters Peter's pence and several everal other nicknames grows bestin bestin best in n shade It makes leaf growth this year sends ends up spikes of purple blooms next spring and Is followed by its large arge flat seed pods which arc are to tobe tobe tobe I be peeled down own to the inner pearly skin for the decorative results Be sure you get seeds of at least these biennials In the ground before the season advances any further |