| Show FLOWERS WHAT ANNUALS SHALL I 1 PLANT thia this often asked question becomes each year more diffin difficult tilt to answer as the annual catalogues cataloguer Catal come to us with their constantly expanding lists it those who have had little experience with plants look over the cata bogues and make their selections from rom the descriptions there gian they will very ofte often be disappointed flowers must have certain requisites to make made them popular and mere novelty will never satisfy the great mass of cultivators the fact pact ia is that for the p ople in general not one fourth of the howers towers of the seed lists are worth growing not because th they e y ar are e not good of their kind but because they the y are not of a kind which meets the i lr 1 ar idea of a flower to be satisfactory an annual must be a free boomer and last fast a long iong while in bloom the flowers must be showy individually individual lys or in the mass and be of good color or to for fo a lack of thebe these qualities they must have a pleasing fra tra fragrance a rance A plant with a ta I 1 weedy growth with arth here and there a showy flower of short durations duration may be interesting and pre ty but will never be popular the fol lowing list a some of those which can an be safely recommended for general culture sweet alyssum Alys bun sun white flowers with bony hony bon y like tra fra fragrance rance once sown will perpetuate ic self dikea like a weed or snap dra gon siow slow but satisfactory astorg astorp indis pen sible aible for late summer and autumn mahy many sorts are in the cita logu eg basony flowered ra flowered and dimit emp are good as many others clarkia all pret ty convolvulus aror fine dianthus or pinks the chinese sor a and D i are good ailias 1 sma small smail if but pretty when grown in masses misses and the same may be said of those ailias which in the catalogues cataloguer catal are called linum grand grandal fl or um fair Mar Al mynia iynia those wirl with colored co ored flowers 0 wars are showy in a large garden and the fr fruit uit nit is good for pickles marigolds the bronze and striped sorts are good when they come true from seed which is not always mignonette grown for fragrance only i or lovegrove all are fine in a cool and shady place pansy pany too well known to need comment phlox Drummond Drummon dil ii this is the showy annual it gives the best beat effect in masses al colors from deep scarlet to hite white bite ca cab cas good especially the double all colors petunia petua nothing is finer than the best borta sorts of stock stocie ten week grown tor lor both ft b heanly beauty e a 1 ciul and nd f fragrance ra grance or nasturtium u r t the dwarf are very brilliant yellow to idt deep beep scarlet and bronze whitla via nine fine ae blue ue s seif self elf elt bowing sowing zinnia a coarse in growth and foliage but with large and showy flowers dlo flo the double ones are fine and in great variety of colors candytuft white crim crimson soft and purple sorts are showy in the bed and an fine for bouquets blooms all the better for cutting these with some of the llever everlasting list flowers flow eray eral noticed in the april merican american 4 agriculturist will vill give a good Be lection selection of reliable sorts the list does dot not lot include all the good things nor is it intended to discourage those who wish from trying novelties hovel bovel ties but merely as a guide to those who have no experience pern peri ence ibid |
