Chrysanthemum Burridgeanum.
Chrysanthemum carinatum.
Chrysanthemum coronarium.
Chrysanthemum tricolor.
Convolvulus minor.
Convolvulus tricolor.
Cosmidium Burridgeanum.
Delphinium, single.
Delphinium, double.
Dianthus, Double White Half Dwarf Margaret.
Dianthus, Dwarf Perpetual.
Dianthus Caryophyllus semperflorens.
Dianthus Chinensis, double.
Dianthus dentosus hybridus.
Dianthus Heddewigii.
Dianthus imperialis.
Dianthus laciniatus, Salmon Queen.
Dianthus plumarius.
Dianthus superbus, dwarf fl. pl.
Dianthus, Picotee.
Elscholtzia cristata.
Eschscholtzia Californica.
Eschscholtzia crocea.
Eschscholtzia, Mandarin.
Eschscholtzia tenuifolia.
Gaillardia picta.
Gaillardia picta Lorenziana.
Gilia achilleæfolia.
Gilia capitata.
Gilia laciniata.
Gilia linifolia.
Gilia nivalis.
Gilia tricolor.
Godetia Whitneyi.
Godetia grandiflora maculata.
Godetia rubicunda splendens.
Hibiscus Africanus.
Hibiscus, Golden Bowl.
Iberis affinis.
Iberis amara.
Iberis coronaria.
Iberis umbellata.
Impatiens or Balsam.
Lavatera alba.
Lavatera trimestris.
Linum grandiflorum.
Madia elegans.
Malope grandiflora.
Matricaria eximia plena.
Matthiola or Stock, in many forms.
Matthiola, Wallflower-leaved.
Matthiola bicornis.
Nigella or Love-in-a-Mist.
Œnothera Drummondii.
Œnothera Lamarckiana.
Œnothera rosea.
Œnothera tetraptera.
Papaver or Poppy, of many kinds.
Papaver cardinale.
Papaver glaucum.
Papaver umbrosum.
Petunia, Ring of Emerald.
Phlox Drummondii, in many varieties.
Portulaca.
Salvia farinacea.
Salvia Horminum.
Salvia splendens.
Schizanthus papilionaceus.
Schizanthus pinnatus.
Silene Armeria.
Silene pendula.
Tagetes or Marigold, in many forms.
Tagetes erecta.
Tagetes patula.
Tagetes signata.
Tropæolum, Dwarf.
Verbena auriculæflora.
Verbena Italica striata.
Verbena hybrida.
Verbena cœrulea.
Verbena, Golden-leaved.
Viscaria cœli-rosa.
Viscaria elegans picta.
Viscaria oculata.
Zinnia, Dwarf.
Zinnia elegans alba.
Zinnia, Tom Thumb.
Zinnia Haageana.
Zinnia coccinea plena.
Summer bedding is often made by perennial plants which are carried over from the preceding year, or better, which are propagated for that particular purpose in February and March. Such plants as geranium, coleus, alyssum, scarlet salvia, ageratum and heliotrope may be used for these beds. It is a common practice to use geranium plants which are in bloom during the winter for bedding out during the summer, but such plants are tall and ungainly in form and have expended the greater part of their energies. It is better to propagate new plants by taking cuttings or slips late in the winter and setting out young, fresh, vigorous subjects.
Very bold and subtropical effects can be made by planting in the open such things as palms, bananas, crotons, araucarias, caladiums and cannas. Plants like bananas and palms, which are kept normally in pots, would better be left in the pots and plunged to the rims rather than turned out directly into the soil. In order to attain quick and continuous effects, it is advisable to set the plants rather close. As such plants are likely to be injured by strong winds, it is well to have subtropical beds in a somewhat protected place.
Another type of bed is that which attempts to make patterns or designs, or carpet-bedding. There are comparatively few plants which are adapted to this purpose, for the plants must be such as will stand shearing and which have very strong and constant colors of foliage. The most popular bedding plants are coleus (particularly the yellow Golden Bedder) achyranthes, alternanthera, Centaurea gymnocarpa, and such succulent plants as the house leeks. Some of the annual flowers may also be used for strong color effects, as Lobelia Erinus and sweet alyssum. Ordinarily the making of carpet-beds should be left to professional gardeners, since it requires much skill and care to make and keep the beds in perfect condition; and a ragged or imperfect carpet-bed is worse than no bed at all. Carpet-beds are really curiosities, and they have no more legitimate place in the general pictorial landscape design area than painted stones or sheared evergreens. Therefore, they should be placed by themselves at one side, where they do not interfere with the general design of the place. In public parks they make a very useful attraction when set off by themselves, the same as zoölogical gardens or other attractions do.
Beefsteak Geranium is Begonia.
Beets. Being one of the hardiest of spring vegetables, the seed may be sown as early in the spring as the ground can be worked. A light, sandy soil is the best on which to grow Beets to perfection, but any well tilled garden soil will raise satisfactory crops. On heavy soil the turnip Beet gives the best results, as the growth is nearly all at or above the surface. The long varieties, having tapering roots running deep into the soil, are apt to be misshapen unless the physical condition of the soil is such that the roots meet with little obstruction. A succession of sowings should be made, at intervals of from two to three weeks,