GARDEN FLOWERS. 



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biscus Californicus is, however, the largest, growing five 

 feet high, and bearing white flowers four to six inches 

 -across, with purple centres. Among the best fall plants, 

 especially when mixed with grasses, such as the Aruiido, 

 etc., are Kniphofias or Tritomas, the red-hot poker plant. 

 Like the Arundo, it is better, although it sometimes 

 winters well, to take it up and winter it in a cellar. 

 It blooms splendidly 

 in autumn until frost. 

 There is no more 

 strange and intensely 

 colored flower than that 

 borne by this plant. It 

 is like flame partially 

 .at white heat. Trito- 

 ma divides, often called 

 Uvaria, is a well- 

 known kind that grows 

 three or four feet high. 

 There is a variety, 

 gmndiflom, that grows 

 five feet high, and there 

 is also a smaller species, corallina, that grows only eighteen 

 inches to two feet, and bears bright coral-red flowers. 



The Lathyrus latifolius, everlasting pea, is an unjustly 

 neglected plant, looking well trailed over bushes or on the 

 ground, where its pretty rose-colored flowers last nearly all 

 summer. There is also a pure white variety. Most of the 

 everlasting peas have large roots, and if left undisturbed 



improve with age. Lobelia cardinalis, the cardinal flower 

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CARDINAL FLOWER. 

 (LOBELIA CARDINALIS.) 



