MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 103 
Papaver Rhoeas, ‘‘Munstead Cream Pink”’ is considered a 
novelty by an English firm. The flowers, borne on long stems, 
were large, single and double, and of a delicate shell-pink. 
The plants bloomed for a month in midsummer, but after the 
seed-pods ripened the entire plants disappeared. It is re- 
gretted that such good plants should have such a short season. 
A giant mallow, Hibiscus Manihot, sold by a New York firm 
as a new plant, attained a height of ten feet and during Sep- 
tember and October bore many large, light yellow flowers 
measuring six to eight inches across. The plants were robust, 
required no staking, and contained heavy foliage unaffected 
by insects. To obtain flowers in August seeds should be sown 
in February, as it requires fully six months to produce bloom- 
ing plants. Attempts to cross this mallow with Hibiscus coc- 
cineus, Moscheutos and sinensis were unsuccessful. 
Seed of Jberts amara coronaria ‘‘Improved White Spiral 
Candytuft’’ were started indoors the middle of March. Dur- 
ing the last half of June and the greater part of July the 
plants were covered with dense spikes of pure white flowers, 
and beds of this candytuft were most attractive. Seeds were 
produced abundantly, after which the plants died, the season 
ending the middle of August. 
A number of hybrid frilled, purple and blue petunias were 
grown. The hybrid frilled and purple petunias produced 
large flowers, but the foliage was poor. The stems were weak, 
the plants requiring considerable staking to keep them pre- 
sentable, and seeds seldom were produced even with the aid 
of hand pollination. The blue petunia, however, grew well 
and produced an abundance of flowers of average size through- 
out the season. The foliage was good, the plants self-support- 
ing, and seeds abundant. 
A purple salvia, presented to the Garden by Mr. G. B. 
Moulder, Landscape Architect, Park Department, Nashville, 
Tenn., is said to be a sport from the red Salvia splendens. The 
plants grew to a height of two and one-half feet and from 
July until frost bore deep purple flowers, almost too dark to 
be attractive. 
Plants of Tunica Saxifraga were grown from seed to deter- 
mine their suitability as rock-garden plants in this locality. 
From August until frost the low, creeping plants were cov- 
ered with delicate, pink flowers. From the manner in which 
Tunica Saxifraga grew and flowered during this season, it 
can safely be recommended as a plant adapted to growing in 
rock gardens. 
In referring to the list it will be noted that not all the 
plants were novelties. Some of them were merely given a 
