"
"Our seedlings are blue, anyway," Ethel Blue reminded the others. "They
must be set in the blue bed."
"How about sweet williams?" asked Mr. Emerson. "Don't I remember some in
your yard?"
"Mother planted some last year," answered Roger, "but they didn't
blossom."
"They will this year. They're perennials, but it takes them one season
to make up their minds to set to work. There's an annual that you might
sow now that will be blossoming in a few weeks. It won't last over,
though."
"Annuals die down at the end of the first season. I'm getting these
terms straightened in my so-called mind," laughed Dorothy.
"You said you had a bleeding heart--"
"A fine old perennial," exclaimed Ethel Brown, airing her new
information.
"--and pink candy-tuft for the border and foxgloves for the back; are
those old plants or seedlings?"
"Both."
"Then you're ready for anything! How about snapdragons?"
"I thought snapdragons were just common weeds," commented James.
"They've been improved, too, and now they are large and very handsome
and of various heights. If you have room enough you can have a lovely
bed of tall ones at the back, with the half dwarf kind before it and the
dwarf in front of all. It gives a sloping mass of bloom that is lovely,
and if you nip off the top blossoms when the buds appear you can make
them branch sidewise and become thick.
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