ANNUALS
For those who prefer growing flowers merely to pick, the quickest way of getting them is to plant summer-blooming annuals. A list of thirty popular annuals, all of them easily grown, is given below.
BLOOMING IN JULY
| Lavatera | Lavatera trimestris |
| Clarkia | Clarkia elegans |
| Large-flowered Godetia | Œnothera Whitneyi |
| Early Cosmos | Cosmos bipinnatus |
| Sweet Alyssum | Alyssum maritimum |
| Marigold | Tagetes patula |
| Nicotiana | Nicotiana alata |
| Sander’s Nicotiana | Nicotiana Sanderæ |
| Arctotis | Arctotis grandis |
| Stock, gillyflower | Matthiola incana var. annua |
| Annual larkspur | Delphinium Ajacis |
| Bedding Lobelia | Lobelia Erinus |
| Wishbone flower | Torenia Fournieri |
| Phacelia | Phacelia congesta |
| African marigold | Tagetes erecta |
| California poppy | Eschscholtzia californica |
| Giant tulip | Hunnemannia fumariæfolia |
| Annual Gaillardia | Gaillardia pulchella |
| Scarlet sage | Salvia splendens |
| Youth-and-old-age | Zinnia elegans |
| Rose moss | Portulaca grandiflora |
| Balsam | Impatiens balsamina |
| Painted tongue | Salpiglossis sinuata |
BLOOMING IN AUGUST
| Gilia | Gilia capitata |
| Three-colored chrysanthemum | Chrysanthemum carinatum |
| Mourning bride | Scabiosa atropurpurea |
| China asters | Callistephus chinensis |
| Everlasting | Helichrysum bracteatum |
| Didiscus | Trachymene cœrulea |