, PLANTING LIST 



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Pop corn is smaller than field corn and most varieties of sweet 

 corn. Plant in hills, two feet each way, or in rows thirty inches 

 apart, the plants nine inches apart in the rows. Cultivate like 

 field corn, and when the crop is picked, save specimen ears for 

 exhibition, and for next year's sowing. 



Corn-flower (Centaurea), is also called Bachelor's Button, Kaiser- 

 blume, and Ragged Sailor, 

 while a sweet-scented and 

 larger, but less freely 

 blooming, "variety is called 

 Sweet Sultan. It is a 

 flower grown mostly as a 

 hardy annual. Varieties 

 are in several colors, but 

 the old-fashioned and still 

 most popular corn-flower 

 is in blue, very freely 

 flowering, and blooming 

 from July till frost, if not 

 allowed to go to seed. 

 The flowers are not showy, 

 but are very pleasing, 

 and are good for cutting. 

 Sow outdoors, broadcast, 

 in April and early May, 

 and thin or transplant to 

 about a foot apart. 



Perennials may be 

 treated like the annuals, or sown in late summer and wintered over. 

 The annuals seed themselves freely. 



Cosmos : This flower has become much more popular since the 

 development of the early blooming varieties, which in the north are 

 safest to plant. It is a tall, free-blooming plant with attractive 

 feathery foliage useful as a background. Its best colors are white 

 and pink. The varieties are from three to six feet tall, the taller 



FIG. 185. Sweet Sultan is a very double 

 Corn-flower. 



