Annual Flowers As to annual flowers, the displays that remain
in the memory are of close masses. Almost any freely flowering annual in a solid patch is 'attractive ; and there is room in any garden for one such mass. It is interesting to change each year and make a new annual the event of the season, though some of course have to be grown every year. Sweet peas are essential. The Clarkia, that can become almost a bush, has such rare qualities for picking that it is hard to surrender, and of half-hardy annuals nemesia is almost without rival; and within the last year or two golden-glow nasturtium has proved irresistible even to the cottage gardener. The variety of rarer annuals worth a year's emphasis is immense, and there is amusement in going the round of viscaria, Swan River daisy, dimotheca or Star of the Veldt, saponaria, annual phloxes and larkspurs, and, indeed, what not ?
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