ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



second year have reached six feet in height, 

 makes a brilliant patch of color in a border 

 and attracts much attention. 



Penstemon Digitalis has heads of white 

 flowers fully nine inches long, is a plant 

 which blooms all through July, is hardy, 

 increases rapidly, and is most effective. 



Another hardy white flower, about as 

 large as a twenty-five cent piece, with a pale 

 pink center, which grows on long stems, is 

 Agrostema alba. The plant is about three 

 feet in height, and has somewhat sparse 

 gray-green foliage. New flower-buds form 

 continually in the axils of the leaves; if the 

 flowers are cut as soon as withered the plant 

 seems to bloom indefinitely, and is valuable 

 for this reason. I have amused myself 

 during this Summer by cutting the faded 

 flowers from a clump of these plants and 

 from one of Centaurea, with the result that 

 they have continued to bloom profusely 

 from June until the middle of September. 



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