PERENNIALS 



Seeds of these plants, whose common name 

 is Chimney Bell flower, are listed in many 

 catalogues, but my impatience to have the 

 plants blooming in the garden was too great 

 for me to wait the two or three years nec- 

 essary for raising them. This Spring I was 

 able to make a beginning with only two 

 dozen; and they have done fairly well, but 

 do not compare with the wonderful plants 

 of Botzen. They were attacked by the same 

 white grub that is the enemy of the Lark- 

 spur, and six were destroyed before I knew 

 it, but coal ashes lightly dug into the ground 

 around them with a small trowel proved a 

 specific. The flowers appeared the first of 

 August, and continued to bloom for more 

 than six weeks, but the stalks were only 

 four feet high and the best plant bore but 

 five of them. 



From the middle of June until the third 



week of July, Penstemon barbatus Torreyi, 



which has a small flower of vivid scarlet 



growing on tall, slender spikes that in their 



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