Portulaca, sweet alyssum, Shirley poppies, and the annual gaillardias belong to this class, as well as single petunias of the inexpensive varieties used to edge shrubberies, and dwarf nasturtiums.
For later bloom, white Petunias fill two beds, light pink Petunias the other two beds.
But Petunias of all kinds are easily multiplied by cuttings.
Illustration] Few things in the garden will make more show throughout the entire season, even after quite severe frosts, than a bed of Petunias from a paper of seed marked "Choicest Mixed from Show Flowers.
You must, of course, study the colours of the plants you grow in this way, and not choose Petunias and Nasturtiums in one season.
Musk is very thirsty, and so are Petunias and Tobacco plants.
Alternate pink Petunias and pink Ivy-leaved Geraniums would look well hanging down.
His path was strewn with petunias and she supposed he had some great victory to announce.
To add a touch of grace she decided to set a bowl of petunias in front of him.
She stopped and stood still there in the little gravel path, between the box edges and beds of roses and heliotrope and petunias that were so sweet in the sunshine.
In reward for his bravery, they gave him not only the throne, but also the hand of Jocasta, the widowed queen.
The news of his friend's death had quickly been carried to Achilles, and had roused him from his indifferent state.
On the wide plain which stretched out between the city and the sea, the Greek and Tro´jan armies fought many a battle; and sometimes one party, and sometimes the other, had the victory.
When Antigone described to her poor blind father the place they had reached, he bade her remain by the roadside, and, groping his way, soon vanished into the forest.
There were beds of petunias and four-o'clocks to be seen dimly glimmering in the dusk, as we drove through the broad gate.
Quicker results are secured, however, if border plants of petunias and some other things are dug up just before frost and placed in pots or boxes.
Then one may sow in freely of easy-growing annuals, as marigolds, China asters, petuniasand phloxes, and sweet peas.
Down the garden, faint with the afternoon scents of the flowers before the western sun, among petunias and roses, oleander and magnolia; here a towering Indian lily, there a thicket of scarlet geranium and fuschia.
In how many farmhouse windows do we see petunias and nasturtiums vivid with bloom, while snows are whirling without, and how much brightness have those cheap enjoyments shed on the lives of those who cared for them!
Petunias try to appear innocent, but the eye that regards them as the conclusion in decorative effect, has very far to come.
Heliotropes cut back, petunias and salvias, by being carefully lifted with a ball of earth so as not to disturb the roots, and then kept in the shade for a couple of days, ought to continue to bloom for some time.
The Petunias are so well known, that I need say very little of the general form of their flowers, except to point out the connexion between them and the Tobacco.
Nierembergia is a genus of ornamental greenhouse plants, easily distinguished from the Petunias by the great length of the tube of the corolla, and by the equal segments of the limb.
In how many farm-house windows do we see petunias and nasturtiums vivid with bloom while snows are whirling without, and how much brightness have those cheap enjoyments shed on the lives of those who cared for them!
Each, no matter how ill kept, is set off by an ornamental border, zinnias, begonias, roses and petunias as obviously showing signs of care and science.
At the farther end of the vessel was hung a cage of canaries, at the other end was a stand of pot-flowers, geraniums and petunias in full bloom and all the more brilliant by virtue of contrast.
Petunias are accommodating in their growth, and may be trained into various forms.
The beds or borders intended for Petunias will be better without recent manure, for this tends to the excessive production of foliage and defers the flowering until late in the season.
All Petunias are impatient of being pot-bound, and this applies especially to the double varieties.
In raising Petunias for bedding, the same conditions are applicable; but as it is useless to put them into the open ground until the weather is warm and settled, the sowing need not be made until the end of February or the beginning of March.
All Petunias rebel if root-bound, and the double varieties are especially impatient in this respect.
Petunias are artificially hybridized to get a double strain of seed, and this the amateur cannot well do.
But my Pansies, Carnations and Petunias are nothing near as large or as finely marked as they were last year, and the last two flowers are all single, not a double one in the lot.
Why," said Pescud, "the other day I took Jessie for a little trip to Philadelphia, and coming back she thought she saw some petuniasin a pot in one of those windows over there just like some she used to raise down in the old Virginia home.
You can get pretty, pale, pink petunias now, and they blossom at a great rate all summer.
He did not stop before his graftings; he passed the clump of petunias without giving them that all-embracing glance I know so well, the glance of the rewarded gardener.
Bees in the piebald petunias that grew straggling and sweet above the sill of the open window, dozed long in each sticky chalice.
Here self-sown magenta petunias made banks of colour against the old brick walls, and the evening light, just turning rosy, fell thereon.
It may be seen in some forms of double columbine,[310] in which the connective forms a tubular petal or nectary, and in double petunias and fuchsias.
In some Petunias the filaments are unchanged, but in place of the anther is a small lamina, representing precisely the blade of an ordinary leaf.
Petunias are excellent and Balsams, Clarkias, Coreopsis (or Calliopsis), and Zinnias may be sown.
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