128 Growing Flowers 



Salpiglossis 



Salpiglossis is sometimes hard to get started and 

 it should be started in the greenhouse or indoors 

 and hardened off before being put out of doors. 

 The soil should be rich but light. In certain locali- 

 ties it does well when sown out of doors and a 

 second sowing can be made for blossoming late in 

 the summer. 



Salpiglossis, sometimes called painted tongue, 

 owing to the colored veins in the leaves, will bloom 

 for two months or longer under favorable condi- 

 tions. // is most effective when planted in groups. 



Scabiosa 



Scabiosa is not a plant of rare beauty but it 

 becomes a great favorite with those who appreciate 

 a flower of long season. It may be treated as an 

 annual and raised from seed under glass; as a 

 biennial and sown in June for planting in perma- 

 nent position in the fall, and in some localities 

 as a perennial. 



Scabiosa requires a sunny location, but it will 

 thrive in almost any soil and is particularly adapted 

 to the rock garden. It may be propagated either 



