manure breeds many aster EMPEROR FREDERICK ills. Two enemies lice at (best white) the root and black HOHENZOLLERN goldenrod beetles on the (new large flowers must be guarded flowers.) against the first by digging sulphur powder, unslaked lime, nitrate of soda, or wood ashes into the soil both before sowing the seed and again into the place where they are transplanted; the beetle must be dislodged by careful hand picking. Cover the seeds with half an inch of soil, and in transplanting set the plants from a foot to eighteen inches apart, according to variety. SWEET ALYSSUM, H.A. White, 1 ft. A cheerful little Variety fragrant mustard-shaped flower Maritimum borne in short, thick spikes, useful for edgings or to supply the white setting necessary to groups of party-coloured flowers. BALSAM T.A. White, 18 in. A rapid-growing, tender Camellia flowered peach, annual from India, and carmine, while rather stiff in form lavender, of growth, very decorative rose, for the summer borders scarlet, surrounding a sundial. spotted, The flowers, like and straw compact, double roses, are very useful for set table decorations and may be used in many ways. Calendula POT H.A. Yellow 1 ft. Showy flowers for summer MARIGOLD and orange beds, not good for Calendula White cutting, as they grow officinalis sleepy indoors and in grandiflora cloudy weather. Calendula Pongei. fl. pl. CANDYTUFT H.A. White, 1 ft. A sturdy white flower Iberis Coronaria fine useful for edgings in the Rocket Candytuft erect form same way as sweet alyssum. May be sown in fall for early flowering. CORNFLOWER H.A. 1-2 ft. One of the most Centaurea satisfactory of the taller Centaurea Margaritae, growing annuals, the fragrant White flowers having some of the SWEET SULTAN qualities of an Suaveolens Yellow everlasting, and making Moschata Purple fine buttonhole flowers CYANUS EMPEROR or house bouquets. The WILLIAM Deep blue Sweet Sultans are (Rich blue delightfully fragrant, and cornflower) the Cornflower one of the finest of our blue flowers. They should be sown in borders or large beds where they are to bloom and while the Sweet Sultans must be spring sown, the Cornflower if sown in October will bloom in May. COSMOS H.A. White 4-8 ft. A beautiful autumn flower Giant fancy Pink if they are on their best Maroon behaviour and bloom on time, but like the little girl with the curl when they are bad, they are horrid. They take a great deal of room during a long season which can be often used to better advantage planted with asters. Dahlia H.H.P. Various 3-6 ft. If sown either indoors or Single and cactus, in a frame, these Dahlias mixed varieties may be as cheaply raised as any common annual with the chance of growing many beautiful and new varieties. The roots may be stored in sand in the cellar during winter like other bulbs. I class this seed with annuals from the fact that it must be sown in spring and cannot be left over winter in the hardy bed though it is a half hardy perennial. Gaillardia, called H.A. Red and 1 ft. Fine daisy-shaped flower BLANKET FLOWER from yellow for colour-masses or its habit of picking. May be sown in covering the ground in the borders after bulbs with bloom have died away, and will Gaillardia, picta and will bloom until hard Lorenziania frost. Ipomaea T.A. 10-15 Our most beautiful annual ft. vines. The common morning glories should be kept from seeding in flower or vegetable gardens, because before you know it the strong tendrils will have twined about vegetables and flowers alike and strangled them. Ipomaea T.A. An early variety of the of the popular moonflower Ipomaea, Mexicana Satiny 15 ft. grandiflora white alba Large white moonflower Ipomaea, Northern T.A. Pinkish 15 ft. Light heliotrope Imperial Japanese T.A. White, 30-40 One of the most artistic morning-glories rose, ft. flowers of the modern crimson, garden, the seed must be all must be sown early, shades of preferably in a hotbed, purple and extra precautions taken to insure its germination, as the coverings are exceedingly hard. It is best to soak them over night in several changes of warm water or else very carefully notch the shell of the seed with a knife. This last performance is rather risky, if the knife slip ever so little, and it is best to trust to the soaking. For those who are in the country only from June to October and have little room for vines, these morning-glories will prove a new experience, for in flower and leaf they present an infinite variety of shape and marking. The flowers are both self-coloured as well as marbled, spotted, striped, margined, and fringed. MIGNONETTE H.A. 1-2 ft. These three species of Miles Spiral Green mignonette I have found and white perfectly satisfactory. Giant Pyramidal Green, 18 in. If quantity is desired deep rather than quality, the Parson's White White and 9 in. seed may be sown thinly buff where it is to remain. But for specimen stalks to come up to catalogue descriptions, each plant must have individual treatment, like the asters. NASTURTIUMS H.A. All shades A showy climbing or Tall of reds trailing plant, useful for Make your own and outdoor decorations and mixture by buying yellows, the clean-smelling flowers the twenty named chocolate, being equally valuable for colours offered and pink, and table decorations. blending them. salmon Should be either planted on a bank, wall, or in front of a fence, stone or otherwise. If stone, a thick support of peabrush should be given, set slantwise toward the wall. Be careful not to place nasturtiums where you will look over them toward beds containing pink or magenta flowers or where they will form a background for the same, as in spite of some beautiful tints of straw-colour and maroon, the general nasturtium colour is dazzling, uncompromising vermilion-orange. PHLOX DRUMMONDII H.A. 11/2 ft. A thoroughly satisfactory Best colours in flower for the summer tall flowering class garden, whether sown broadcast to cover beds Alba White left empty by spring bulbs Coccinea Scarlet or sown in a seed bed and Isabellina Light transplanted eight inches yellow to a foot apart, when if Rosea Pink the dead flowers are kept Stella Splendens Crimson well picked off, they will Atropurpurea Purple make sturdy, compact bushes. DRUMMOND PHLOX 6-8 ft. The dwarf varieties make Snowball White charming edges for hardy Chamois Rose Pink rose beds or shrubberies. Fireball Flame Surprise Scarlet edged with white POPPIES H.A. 1 ft. - Poppies are gorgeous 18 in. flowers, but in our SHIRLEY, the most All shades changeable climate, as a satisfactory reds class, are too short-lived of poppies for to pay their way, except outdoor decoration in summer gardens where a or cutting brief period of bloom suffices, or in a garden so large that there need be no economy of space. Shirley is sown in May and again in August for spring flowering. Even under adverse conditions the Shirley is always dainty and never makes a disagreeable, soppy exhibition after a rainy period like the carnation and peony flowered varieties. PORTULACA T.A. Red, 6-8 in. A most useful "filler" for Buy the separate white, sunny nooks, rockwork, colours and mix pink, for covering bulb beds, them yourself, as crimson, and concealing mishaps in the commercial yellow and disappointments. mixtures both Its fat, uninteresting scarlet and pink foliage, that makes mats appear in tints a foot broad and proclaims that set the teeth it first cousin to on edge "pusley," is covered during bright sunshine by a wealth of gay flowers two inches across and of satiny texture. Heat, and plenty of it, is what Portulaca craves, backyards agree with it, also dry banks, and even seashore sand if there is a foothold of loam beneath. Salvia Splendens H.A. 2-21/2 ft. The familiar flower that FLOWERING SAGE sends up its spikes of Bonfire Intense flame from August until flame frost should be sown in seed beds and set out from one to two feet apart. Watch out and do not put your salvia where it will come in competition with the crimson-hued hardy phlox tribe. Scarlet geraniums and the crimson rambler rose in conjunction are not more painful. SWEET PEAS, twelve H.A. Various 6 ft. If sweet peas are to be good colours grown in any quantity, they should be sown after Apple blossom Pink the manner of tall garden Black knight Maroon peas and the colours kept Boreatton Deep separate. This is a great Crimson aid both to their Coquette Primrose gathering and artistic Crown jewel Cream, arrangement. violet veins Duke of Clarence Claret Firefly Dazzling scarlet Gorgeous Orange and rose Mrs. Kenyon (very Primrose- large) yellow King Edward VII Very fine crimson Mrs. Dugdale Best rose-pink Navy blue Rich dark blue Primrose Light yellow Senator White, purple, and maroon striped Mont Blanc, very White 2 ft. early Stella Morse Primrose flushed with pink SUNFLOWERS H.A. All shades 4-8 ft. Cheerful flowers to line Henry Wilde of yellow up against fences or at Primrose-coloured the back of shrubberies, Cucumerifolius whose seeds, if left to hybridus fl. pl., ripen, will secure the a fine mixture of company of many birds for new varieties, your garden through the decorative and autumn and early winter. good for cutting Single Russian (The 8 ft. Henyard Sunflower), large head heavy with seeds VERBENA H.A. 11/2 ft. The best summer-bedding Defiance, scarlet plant that is raised from bedder seed, which must be well Candidissima soaked before sowing. The Auriculaeflora, mammoth varieties are the various, with most satisfactory, and white eye among them are to be Mammoth, mixed, Red, found shaded tints of rose large flowers, often white, and lavender that have fragrant, of many blue, decided perfume. beautiful colours. purple, crimson, pink, striped WALLFLOWER H.A. Gold and 11/2 ft. While the most beautiful Paris single annual Brown species of wallflowers are in this climate so tender that they must be wintered in pits or cold frames, this single species, if sown in spring and transplanted, will bloom until Christmas. It is one of the most valuable and characteristic plants of the bed of sweet odours and can be used to fill odd nooks, against stone walls, or the foundation of buildings. ZINNIA (Crabbed age H.A. 1-16 in. Bedding annual, of and Youth) brilliant colours and Salmon vigorous growth. If room Snowball is lacking, the dwarf Sulphur varieties are best unless Golden the soil is very poor. It Fireball is best to buy the seed in Rose separate colours, and when transplanting from the seed bed, combine as required. Avoid the purple and magenta shades, they are quite impossible. ================================================================

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