SUCCESSION CROPS 



heavy shower brings its widely opened flowers to 

 earth to be bespattered with mud. The leaves 

 of the poppy, upright and hairy, form a capital 

 support for the misbehaving stem of Yellow 

 Rose, and the poppies, having thus lent the tulips 

 aid in time of need, go a step farther and cover 

 their drying foliage with a handsome acanthus- 

 like screen of green surmounted by the noble 

 scarlet and salmon blooms of early June. This 

 is a very simple, practical, and safe experiment in 

 succession crops, and is heartily commended. Fol- 

 lowing these poppies comes the bloom of a few 

 plants of campanula Die Fee, and I am trying this 

 year the experiment of Campanula pyramidalis in 

 blues and whites thickly planted among the pop- 

 pies, for late summer bloom when the poppy 

 leaves shall have vanished. This is a large de- 

 mand to make upon the earth in a small space, 

 but, with encouragement by means of several top- 

 dressings of well-rotted manure, I hope to accom- 

 plish this crop succession satisfactorily. Among 

 the yellow columbines (Aquilegia chrysantha) I 

 generally tuck quantities of white or purple stocks, 

 those known as Button's Perfection. The aqui- 

 legia is cut close to the ground as soon as its seed- 

 pods take the place of flowers; and the stocks are 



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