Excerpt from The Book of Annuals, 1913 In choosing a list for the available garden space, the most successful results will be secured by spend ing some little time and study upon the planting ar rangement on paper. It is so much easier to change locations and proportions on a sketch pad than to correct errors after the plants are once started upon their life work. Lay out the garden plot on paper first, representing each foot of length and breadth by a half-inch or other convenient unit. In a plot along a fence or wall, keep the higher plants at the rear and the low edging plants in front. Avoid straight lines in the clumps, allowing the various plantings to run in and partly around neighboring groups rather than as simple bands or blocks. Above all, have one or two generous groups of a particular plant rather than a lot of insignificant patches. With most annuals, it takes a fairly large planting to make a satisfactory showing, and it would be far better to cut down the list of plants to be grown than to at tempt to grow more kinds of flowers than the available space warrants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.