Fig. 2596. Giant Flowered Petunias. 



GIANT FLOWERED PETUNIAS 



BY 



WM. HUNT, 



O. A. C, GUELPH. 



THIS magnificent type of these ever- 

 popular plants is certainly a great 

 advance on the ordinary single type 

 of petunia commonly seen in flower beds or 

 borders. The immense size, as well as the 

 beautiful form and texture of their fringed 

 flowers, added to their gorgeously rich 

 and varied pencilling and marking, 

 at once attracts the eye of the flower 

 lover. It would be impossible to even at- 

 tempt to describe the many beautiful colors 

 and tints to be found in a good strain of 

 these petunias, ranging as they do in color 

 from pure white to a deep claret purple, 

 blotched, striped, pencilled and tinted with 

 shades of almost every color found in flow- 

 ers, so that to really get a correct idea of 

 their beauty one has to see them growing 



naturally in the flower bed or border, or ar- 

 ranged in a shallow dish, as seen in the ac- 

 companying cut (Fig. 2593). This giant 

 strain of petunia is not as free growing as 

 the common type, neither is it as floriferous 

 in point of the number of its flowers, but the 

 beauty of the individual blossom more than 

 compensates for these defects. It is to be 

 hoped that those who are interested in the 

 development of new types of this strain of 

 petunia will be able to add the robust, free 

 growing and floriferous habit of the com- 

 moner type to this giant flowering favorite 

 of the flower garden. A shallow vase or 

 dish of these beautiful flowers will alone 

 make a splendid centre floral piece for a. 

 drawing room or dining-room table. 



