2 APRIL 1932, Page 13

The gayest bed of annuals that I have seen of

late year:.

consisted chiefly of Tom TI b nasturtiums, which have this supreme advantage for, say, gardeners in Surrey : they delight in dry and otherwise half-barren sand. With most of those that Stephenson's friend would have called "boss" annuals, you are recommended to do the ground well. Inferior fertilization, in association perhaps with insufficiently drastic tbinning,•ruins many an annual bed or border ; but not even Iris Stylosa responds better to indifferent and sandy soil than these dwarf nasturtiums.

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