FLOWERING PLANTS 65 
deep wines and clear yellows, with combinations 
of two or more of these in many cases, are among 
our most beautiful flowers. They stay in blossom 
a long time, each stalk opening out slowly from the 
bottom to the top of the spike, like a gladiolus. 
They seem, in my own experience at least, to stand 
almost any amount of abuse; this spring several old 
plants that I had abandoned to their fate insisted on 
coming to life again and trying to vie with their 
younger progeny in flowering. 
Snapdragons are easily raised from seed, or prop- 
agated by cuttings. For winter blooming sow the 
former in March or April, grow on in a cool place 
and keep pinched back to make bushy plants. If 
you have limited room, let one stalk blossom on 
each plant, so that you can avoid selecting dupli- 
cates. Cuttings may be taken at any time when the 
weather is not too hot. Take the tops of flowering 
shoots which have not yet matured so far as to be- 
come hollow. 
The varieties have been greatly improved, that 
now sold as Giant-flowered Hybrids being the best. 
There is also a dwarf type and of still later intro- 
duction a double white. This will undoubtedly 
break into the other colors and give us a valuable 
new race. 
With the directions given for the foregoing, and 
also on pages 6 to 50, the following brief instruc- 
tions should be necessary to enable success with the 
