. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . d pods isthe Balloon Vine. Although the flowers are inconspicuous, the balloonsare borne very freely. The Cypress Vine and the Cardinal Climberboth possess deep red flowers and fine foliage. The seeds of both arerather difficult to start, but if those of the Cypress Vine are scaldedthere should be httle difficulty. The familiar Hop, Scarlet Bean andGourds should not be forgotten. If one prefers something ra
. Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book . d pods isthe Balloon Vine. Although the flowers are inconspicuous, the balloonsare borne very freely. The Cypress Vine and the Cardinal Climberboth possess deep red flowers and fine foliage. The seeds of both arerather difficult to start, but if those of the Cypress Vine are scaldedthere should be httle difficulty. The familiar Hop, Scarlet Bean andGourds should not be forgotten. If one prefers something rather extra-ordinary and unique, the Canary Bird Vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum)with its peculiar yellow fringed flowers and delicate foHage, should begrown. 92 GARDEN GUIDECombinations of Annuals It is hardly ever advisable to buy mixed colors of flowers; it ismuch better to buy packages of good separate colors and mix is prettier than huge masses of one color. Bicolor or varie-gated flowers are to be avoided, because they often give a dull appear-ance as seen in beds. Let us make a few recommendations for combinations of annualsor ways in which they give the best eflects:. Foxgloves (Digitalis) are hardy biennials; they seed andreproduce themselves freely—See also page 116 In making beds for annuals they should not be too wide; if againsta fence, four or five feet, and if in the open, six or seven feet, is sufficient;otherwise, they cannot be handled easily either for picking the flowersor for cultivating and weeding. Few annuals can be sown so that theyare exactly the proper distance apart when they bloom. They must,therefore, be thinned. According to the variety they all need from sixto eighteen inches between plants. Poppy beds are always too thickly ANNUALS AND BIENNIALS 93 planted, for Poppy seed is very fine and difficult to sow properly. Theymust be thinned if the Poppies are to attain their proper development. A bed of blue Bachelors Buttons can be nicely e
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