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blossoms to a spike, so six plants would produce 

 72 flowers, but this flower we seldom pick. 



Calendula has a dozen blossoms apiece. 



Celosia has about three spikes of blossoms to each 

 plant. Six plants would give us 18 beautiful feath- 

 ery blooms. 



Centaurea has a dozen blossoms apiece. 



Cosmos has as many as 36 blossoms to a plant so 

 six plants would give us 216 flowers, surely a good 

 many bouquets. 



Dahlias have 30 blossoms each (if the weather is 

 not too hot) and I have seen many plants produce 

 50 but we will consider 30 a fair number. 



Gaillardia will give us as many blossoms as cal- 

 endula, a dozen apiece. 



Larkspur's blossoms grow on spikes also, and 

 each plant will have five or six spikes. 



Salvia has five or more spikes to a plant, so six 

 plants would give us 30 spikes of scarlet gorgeous- 

 ness. 



Nicotianas blossoms come on spikes also, but 

 the blossoms are so large and so far apart that we 

 will surely have to count them. A spike will have 

 a dozen blossoms, one opening after another, and a 

 half dozen stalks on a plant, so one single plant 



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