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lanceolate, sweet scented. Used for flavoring vinegar and pickles. 

 Wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum, Linn.). Plants 21/2 feet high, woody- 

 stemmed. Cultivated as ''Southernwood" for the pleasant-scented foliage. 

 Catnip (Nepeta Cataria, Linn.). Plants with strong fragrance. Soft 

 downy; leaves oblong, heart-shaped; clusters or spikes of small whitish 

 flowers in late summer. Sometimes used in medicine. Elsewhere a weed 

 around dwellings or gardens. Basil (Ocimum Basilicum, Linn.). A 

 sweet herb forming plants 12 inches high with light green, orate and 

 somewhat toothed leaves and bluish white racemed flowers in late sum- 

 mer. Not quite as hardy as the others. 



Among the Honey Plants tested, Anchusa Italica, Eetz. planted in 

 1903 is still the favorite of honey gathering insects. The plants were 

 loaded with the showy small blossoms from June 2 until permanent snow 

 fell. Borage, planted in 1904, is more or less self-seeding. A^oluntary 

 plants blossomed July 12. Those from spring planted seed July 30. 

 Phacelia {Yiscida Torr.) blossomed July 19; the deep blue flowers being 

 an inch in diameter. Plants rather coarse, clammy. Leaves ovate, cut- 

 toothed with dark pink margins. Phacelia Whitlavia fWhitlavia Grandi- 

 flora) blossomed July 27, resembles the last in growth and foliage. Is 

 less clammy and more spreading. Leaves solid green, coarsely toothed, 

 roundish ovate and on longer petioles. Flowers violet blue with stamens 

 and style slender and protruding, Ah/ssum Maritimum, Lam. (Sweet 

 Alyssum) blossomed July 20. The dwarf plants were covered until the 

 end of the season with masses of showy, small, white, honey-scented 

 flowers. Centanrea Cyamift Linn. (Cornflower, Bachelor's Button). 

 Flow^ers large, blue, on solitary long-stalked head. Stems looselv cot- 

 tony. Occasionally running wild. Cleome Punqens proved to be Cleome 

 integrifolia. blossomed August 0. Plants stout, smooth, 2i/'2 ^^^^ high; 

 the numerous pink flowers lasting until the close of the season. Culti- 

 vated for bees as "Rocky Mountain Bee Plant." Mignonette. (Reseda 

 Odorata Linn.) The well-known and delicious-scented flowers lasted 

 from Auffust 9 until the forepart of November, l^tock, German Ten 

 Weeks (IMatthiola amma, sweet) proved to be Malcolmia Martima. Br. 

 (Mahon Stock), blossomed August 26, Plants 18 inches high, with 

 oblong or spatulate, pale green leaves and numerous flowers li/o inch in 

 diameter, white in one variety, and in the other pink changing to violet 

 purple. 



Nigella Damasccnn Limr. (Love in a Mist) blossomed August 15. Large 

 bluish flowers surrounded and overtopped bv a finely divided, leafy in- 

 volucre, and succeeded by a smooth, inflated 5-celled seed pod. 



Esclisclwlt^ia Calif ornica. Cham. (Californian Poppv). The large, 

 bright oransre yellow flowers lasted from July 2fi until November. 



Pansy (Viola Tricolar Linn.). Plants of the best large flowering 

 varieties, kindly donated bv R. C. Bradley, of Newberry, were set out 

 in 1904 and furnished the earliest flowers of the season, the plants be- 

 ginning to blossom April 30 and continuing until November. 



Bulbs of several fine varieties of Dahlins and Cannas were kindly do- 

 nated by C. V. R. Townsend, of Negaunee. The plants were cut back 

 several times by cutworms, but finally recovered, the Dahlias blossom- 

 ing from August 8 until the middle of October. The Cannas did not 

 blossom until September 14. the very large and ornamental leaves being 

 quite as handsome as the tall spikes of bright flowers. Planted June 12, 

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