Ageratum | Buy Dwarf Variety. See List of Annuals for (Floss Flower). | description. -----------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Verbenas. | Sweet-scented Verbenas. | | Colors: Rose, pink, white, purple, lavender, etc. -----------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Vinca Major Varigata | Excellent for trailing over the edges of window (“Variegated | boxes. Periwinkle”). | | Leaves glossy green with light green edges. | | Flowers, blue. -----------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Geraniums. | Too well known to need description. Easily grown | from “cuttings.” | | See Chapter XXXV. | | Do not expect geraniums to bloom the year round. | Give them rest in Winter or Summer by pinching | off the buds. -----------------------+-------------------------------------------------- One of the prettiest shallow window boxes is planted with Violas in mixed colors, with “Tom Thumb” Alyssum for edging. “Oh, Billy, will you build me a window box soon for my play house?” asked Mary Frances with enthusiasm. “Will I? Indeed, Mary Frances, what do you think! I don’t believe you’ll find another fellow——” “Oh, Billy, I didn’t think! I didn’t! You’re so good to give me these lessons! I’ll wait until later for the window box.” “You’d better,” said Billy; “you interrupted my notes. There is just one more flower mentioned in these lists. It is— -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- Lemon Verbena| An old-fashioned favorite, because of the sweet-scented (not hardy). | foliage. It is better grown in the garden than in | window boxes. The flowers are insignificant, but the | lemon-scented leaves are a delight. -------------+--------------------------------------------------------- “Some ‘Lemon verbena’ I shall have!” exclaimed Mary Frances. “I remember it well in Grandma’s garden, don’t you?” “I remember it, but I remember another sweet-scented leaf better: -----------+---------------------------------------------------------- Ber-ga-mot.| Hardy, easily grown. | | Flowers: Brilliant red; pretty, but not beautiful. Leaves | very fragrant. Humming birds often gather nectar from the | flowers. -----------+---------------------------------------------------------- “Oh, Billy, I remember that, too. Wasn’t it lovely! I know Grandma will give me some roots. Now, let’s begin the next lesson. I am so anxious to get to the place where I really begin to do something!”