. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS 95 A bed of blue Bachelor's Buttons can be nicely edged wi
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS 95 A bed of blue Bachelor's Buttons can be nicely edged with Sweet Alyssum or Candytuft, fcoth of the latter being white. The Bachelor's But- tons will furnish a constant supply of cut flowers. Snapdragon, of which a delicate pink variety, perhaps, is chosen, will be excellent combined with Dusty Miller. Another bed will be showy, composed of California Poppies planted in front of the taller pot Marigolds! This will be in tones of orange-yellow. Entire beds, perhaps five by ten feet, of Verbenas, planted 12 inches apart each way, will prove very Foxgloves are hardy biennials; they seed and reproduce themselves freely Grow a fine lot of young Drummondi Phlox plants, a white variety, and after filling a bed with them placed eight inches apart, plant bulbs of the pink variety America Gladiolus between the plants. Into your bed of Pansies transplant a few of the dainty blue BrowalUa demissa; this will cast a very light and airy effect over the whole bed. On some narrow strip, where there is little room, try Godetia Rosa- mond with its satiny pink flowers by itself. You will be rewarded by a very pretty display. A huge bed of Nicotiana sylvestris, the ornamentEil Tobacco, near a porch where you can get the great fragrance in the evening, is very satis- factory. The Nicotiana self sows and it will be necessary to keep these in Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digital
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