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PHLOX 



Are also very hardy. A gentleman procured some in the fall and not 

 being ready to plant them just then, he threw a board over them and 

 forgot all about them until spring, when he took up the board and found 

 them in good condition. He planted them with no loss. October and 

 November are good months for planting them. We do not often mulch 

 and seldom lose a plant. Farther north it is well to cover them. Here 

 the ground seldom heaves. Sometimes we hoe dirt over them in the fall 

 and remove it in the spring. The nurseryman often has orders for them 

 in the spring when they are a foot high. It is cruel to disturb them in 

 that condition. In the spring they begin to grow before the frost is 

 fairly out of the ground. Great improvement has, of late years, been 

 made with them. We have produced several of great merit and we 

 think much finer than any of the imported ones. They are in bloom 

 from June till November. The Phlox Manual takes you into wonderland 

 and shows how you can produce new varieties as well as the European 

 experts. 



DELPHINIUMS. 



These prove to be very attractive. In the main they carry all the 

 shades of blue, besides the pure white and the yellow. The latter, how- 

 ever, is not perfectly hardy. These should be planted in October and 

 November or very early in the spring. At their best you see great 

 branching plants, sometimes six feet tall, miniature trees, overwhelmed 

 with super blooms. Many new kinds are being produced. Burbank's and 

 Boston mixed seem to be among the best. 



AQUILEGIA OR COLUMBINE 



Are very hardy. The Rocky mountain coerulea is among the finest. 

 These flowers are on hand for Decoration Day and bouquets of red, white 

 and blue make fine tribute for soldiers' graves. 



Hardy chrysanthemums, pyrethrums (painted daises), pinks, be- 

 gonias (plume poppy), campanulas of the perennial sort, hollyhocks and 

 many others may be planted in the fall. Shasta daises, Stokes' asters, 

 digitalis and gaillardias are classed as hardy perennials but they are 

 not. If planted in the fall they must be well covored. It is well for 

 them to wait until early spring and let the fiorist take the risk of winter- 

 ing. 



Plant in abundance. They are cheap — a little money goes a good 

 ways. Don't depend on two or three lonesome little fiowers to brighten 

 up a whole yard. One lady ordered three phloxes for a farm of 160 

 acres. She said she hadn't room for more. 



When you step out into God's great out-of-doors match the Tastneaa 

 by planting in alnindance. 



