Apropos, the best little book on annuals that exists has
just been issued. It is a repetition with important additions of a lecture on annuals delivered to the Royal Horticultural Society' by Mr. Leonard Sutton. A copy kindly sent to me has been decorated with pencil marks at the margin and all the marks are opposite references to blue species or varieties. It would be interesting for another year to experiment with a bed of blues. We have now blue varieties even of the Nemesia, once only known in brown and yellow. One might add a few perennials that have the air of annuals such as the attractive veronica spicata or blue verbena, or even the tree violet and perhaps, at the very edge, veronica rupestris. The book, which is little more than a pamphlet in size and price, • is called Annuals and published by Simpkin Marshall.
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