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BACHELORS BUTTONS. A name applied to many small globose, double, 

 button-like flowers, such as CORNFLOWER, RANUNCULUS or FAIR 

 MAIDES OF FRANCE, GLOBE AMARANTH (which see). 



BALSAM, SOMERSET, SOMER-SOTS, LADY S SLIPPER (Impatiens balsamind). 

 White, rose, red, and purplish. Double flowers from July to frost. 

 Pods snap open and seeds turn somersaults before flying out. Favour 

 ite toy of children. Likes moist ground. Annual ; 2 feet. Introduced 

 from India. 



BELLFLOWER. See CANTERBURY BELLS below, and list of HERBACEOUS 

 PERENNIALS. 



BLUEBELL. See HAREBELL. 



CANDYTUFT (Iberis sempervirens). Best perennial candytuft for rockery 

 or border; 6 to 8 inches; evergreen. White flowers in long 



racemes; clusters flattish at first. June. , COLOURED (/. umbel- 



laid). Dark purple, purple, carmine, rose, lilac, flesh, and white. 



Flower clusters always remain flat. , ROCKET (/. amard). 



White, like sweet alyssum, but not fragrant, and larger. Good for 

 rockery or border. Common white candytuft. Clusters elongate 

 in fruiting. 



CANTERBURY BELLS, BELLFLOWER (Campanula Medium). Oldest and 

 most popular of all campanulas. Blue, violet, pink, or white bell- 

 shaped flowers, one and one-half inches across. June; 2 to 2j feet; 

 biennial. Sow August to October in frames for flowers the next 

 year. 



CARNATIONS, BORDER (Dianthus Caryophyllus). Pink, white. August; 

 I to 2 feet. Giant Marguerite blooms in twelve weeks from seed; 

 Chabaud s Perpetual in six months, and will stand over winter, 

 blooming next spring also. Give porous, gritty, well-drained soil. 



CATCHFLY, GERMAN (Lychnis Viscarid). Red flowers one-half inch 

 across in opposite short-stalked clusters. Petals two-notched. 

 Sticky patches beneath flowers said to catch ants. Tufted plant. 

 Annual; 6 to 20 inches. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM, ANNUAL (Chrysanthemum coronarium). Yellow. 

 Gives yellow buttons one-half inch across from July to frost. Doubt 

 less what the Boston seedswoman of 1760 meant by &quot;Chrysanthe 

 mum.&quot; White chrysanthemum listed in Boston, 1760, could hardly 

 have been the perennial flower so common to-day. 



