Spanish Bayonet || | | |----|-- | | || | | | --| ---- | | | +----------------------------------------------------++-----+---+----+----+------+---------+-------++--------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ 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_ CHAPTER VII HISTORY OF THE PLANT KINGDOM 1. DAWN OF PLANT LIFE ON EARTH “And the Earth was without form and void”