GARDEN FLOWERS. 



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racemes or clusters and are white and very fragrant. The 



leaves of these plantain lilies are large and showy, egg- 



shaped, and slightly heart-shaped 



at the base, and the flower stems 



rise about eighteen inches high. 



Gypsopliila paniculata comes from 



the Caucasus and grows about three 



feet high in a mass, as broad as tall, 



of thread-like sterna bearing abun- 



dant small white flowers. It is a 



very graceful and delicate plant, 



blooming from midsummer to early 



PLANTAIN 



The little Helenium Hoopesii is a neat "Western plant 

 twelve to fifteen inches high, that bears large orange-yellow 

 flowers, which continue blooming a long time in summer. 

 Hemeroccdlis flava, day lily, is a beautiful plant that 

 bears sweet-scented lemon-yellow flowers on steins two and 

 a half feet high. It blooms in midsummer. 



One of the finest old garden flowers is the hollyhock 

 with cup- or rosette-shaped flowers studded along stems 

 six or eight feet high. The colors vary from white to red, 

 dark purple, and bright yellow. The double varieties are 

 much prized, but I confess to a special liking for the old 

 single cup- or wineglass-shaped kinds. There are some 

 shades of these old kinds that are also very attractive, ruby- 

 or wine-colored and pure white. The growth of a re- 

 newed regard for the simple and often lovely old forms of 

 single flowering plants is a promising sign in horticulture. 

 Heresy though it may seem to suggest it, I am sometimes 



