352 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Fig. 148. HARDY PINKS, VARIETY ALLWOODII, which will give you all Summer 



large, double, fragrant flowers on 10- to 12-in. stems. A few good stock plants 



will furnish quantities of cuttings which root freely in Winter 



Among other so-called hardy Pinks we have the double and 

 single clove-scented ones and the Pheasants' Eye type. They can 

 be propagated by cuttings taken about September, or you can grow 

 them from seed. 



You might try the new strain Alwoodii, which is a freer bloomer 

 than any, flowering all Summer, more or less, like a Carnation. 



Among the annual sorts the so-called China and Indian Pinks 

 are showy, but they are hardly of a great deal of importance to 

 the florist. Still, a little seed may be sown with the rest of the 

 annuals under glass in early Spring and the little plants grown 

 on, in pots, for the bedding season. 



DICENTRA SPECTABILIS (BLEEDING HEART) 



With Maidenhair-like foliage similar to that of the Columbines 

 and with graceful stems hanging full of little heart-shaped flowers, 

 the Dicentras during early Summer are just as pretty in the herba- 

 ceous border as can be. You should carry a stock of them along with 

 all the other plants meant for the hardy border. You may have 

 call for only a very few each year, but it means just that much more 

 business and when you once have a few plants and let them have 



