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The Annual Garden (Apart the tall-growing kinds)

apart, the tall-growing kinds requiring 12 to 18 inches depending upon the richness of the soil.

The best colors are: flesh, salmon pink, sulphur yellow, violet and white. The difficulty of growing zinnias lies in the vivid color of most of the varieties which clashes dreadfully with the other flowers in the garden. It is a good idea to grow more plants than one needs, in order to have a reserve supply to fall back on, and replace any plants in the garden whose color disappoints. Lift them with a ball of earth, and plant before a rain, and water copiously. It is well to puddle the hole in planting these large plants. A bushy, compact growth is obtained by nipping out the center of the shoots when the seedlings are about 6 inches high, as zinnias are inclined to bloom too soon at the expense of sturdy growth. [43]