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NASTURTIUM

Dwarf and running varieties; the latter used for hanging-baskets in winter. Dwarfs, pretty, low-growing, profuse flowering plants. The green seeds, like martynia pods, are valuable for pickling. Sow in hot-bed and transplant in open air, eight inches apart.

NEMOPHILA. (BABY'S EYES). - Loveliest of blue-eyed flowers. They are low, hardy annuals. Sow in frames, transplant six inches apart; thrive best in cool, shady places. Seed sown in the fall will succeed well.

PANSY. (VIOLA TRI-COLOR). - Nothing prettier; bloom the first season, in June, if sown early in hot-bed and transplanted. Requires protection during the winter if in open-air beds.

PETUNIA. Indispensable, and elegant in masses; fine in the window garden. The seed may be sown in hot-bed or cold frame; transplant eighteen inches apart; the plants do not always come true from seed; they are of every shade of color, and bloom from early spring until frost.

PHLOX, DRUMMOND'S. (ANNUAL). - Among the most beautiful of garden flowers, and of infinite variety of colors. The seeds for early flowering should be sown in the hot-bed or the cold-frame, and transplanted one foot apart, as too close planting produces mildew. Or plant out doors where wished to grow. The pretty moss pink is one of the perennial phloxes.

PORTULACA. One of the most brilliant of sun-loving flowers; low-growing, creeping plants, flowering abundantly. Sow in hot-bed and transplant, six inches apart in the open air.

RICINUS. (CASTOR-OIL BEAN). - Plants of green and purple foliage, of tropical and striking effect. A centre-piece of ricinus, with plants of canna next, and a row of caladium plants outside, will form a bed truly tropical in effect. SCABIOSA. (MOURNING BRIDE). - Bright-colored, annuals, adapted for beds and for bouquets. The German dwarf varieties are double; sow in frame or in open border. Set the tall varieties fifteen inches apart, dwarf, a foot apart.