ure extensive displays of flowers during the summer
season. It is that a number of plants of highly ornamental character,
usually treated as perennials, are really more effective, besides
occasioning less labour to produce them, when cultivated as annuals. The
Dianthus and its several splendid varieties do better as annuals than
biennials. For all the ordinary purposes of display, Lobelias may be as
well grown from seed as from cuttings, and in every garden will be found
proof of the small amount of care they require; for we find stray,
self-sown plants in pots of Geraniums and other places, and these, if
left alone, become perfect bushes, and are a mass of flowers all the
summer. Many annuals commonly reputed to be tender and usually raised in
heat do very well indeed on a more rough and ready method. In proof of
this, sow =Perilla nankinensis= in the first week of May where it is
required, and in the month of July you will probably be convinced that
Perilla does not always need careful nursing in heated houses through
the spring. Even the really tender Castor-oil Plant will thrive if sown
in the open ground the first week in May. Having no check, as plants put
out from pots must have, the growth will be regular and sturdy, and
attain magnificent dimensions.

Perhaps the most effective way of growing annuals is to arrange them in
harmonious blendings or contrasts of colour. The wide choice of
varieties available admits of an almost endless number of combinations,
and the following tables, classified according to colour, will no doubt
afford some serviceable suggestions, although these by no means exhaust
the list. The height is indicated in feet and Climbers as 'Cl.'

==WHITE, AND CREAM SHADES.==

==TALL.==

Chrysanthemum coronarium,
Princess May ... ... ... 3
Chrysanthemum coronarium,
Double white ... ... ... 3
Cornflower, White ... ... 3
Helichrysum, Silver Globe ... 3
Larkspur, Stock-flowered, White 3
Lavatera alba splendens ... ... 3
Poppy, Giant Double, White ... 3
" Giant Single, White ... 3
Scabious, Snowball ... ... 3
Chrysanthemum carinatum album 2-1/2
" Dunnetti, Double
white ... ... ... ... 2-1/2
Nasturtium, Tall, Pearl ... ... Cl.

==MEDIUM.==

Clarkia elegans, Snowball ... 2
Lupinus Hartwegii, White ... 2
Malope, White ... ... ... 2
Poppy, White Swan ... ... 2
Shirley, Double White ... 2
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