LATANA, LARKSPUR 



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KUDZU VINE 



See Pueraria 



LACE FLOWER, BLUE 



See Didiscus 



LANTANA 



There isn't any longer the demand for Lantana that there was 

 in former years when it was largely used for bedding. But for all 

 that, the retail grower should always have a few well-grown 3J^- and 

 4-in. pot plants on hand during the Spring months. They not only 

 make good bedders, but do finely in porch boxes. The trailing sort 

 is best adapted for the latter purpose and makes a showy hanging 

 basket for the porch and a good companion for the trailing Fuchsia. 



Garry along in pots a few plants left over from Spring; they 

 are best kept in a frame with the pots plunged in soil. Bring to a 

 Carnation house in October and keep a little on the dry side. By 

 the middle of December cut back a little and shift into larger pots; 

 the new breaks will be ready for the cutting bench in a few weeks 

 and will want a little bottom heat. 



LARKSPUR, ANNUAL 



(For the perennial sorts, see 

 Delphinium) 



The annual Larkspurs 

 are among the desirable 

 Summer flowers and are 

 equally well adapted for in- 

 door flowering during the 

 early Spring months. They 

 come in many shades of 

 white, pink, and blue, and 

 nothing is more graceful in a 

 basket of garden flowers 

 or more lasting. 



For outdoors sow seed in 

 flats about March first; carry 

 the little plants in 2s or 2^s 

 and plant in a mild hotbed 

 or coldframe in April. They 

 will flower by early May. 

 Another lot can be sown in 

 rows in a frame in early April, 

 and by the end of that month 

 you can transplant indoor 

 started plants to the field. 

 Still another batch of seed 



Fig. 195. SUMMER LARKSPUR. Its grace- 

 ful habit, long stems, finely cut foliage and 

 soft-toned flowers of blue, pink and white, 

 make it desirable for cutting and equally 

 as good for growing under glass for early 

 Spring blooming 



can be sown in the open about June fifteenth, which will give you 

 fine spikes toward Fall when the others are pretty well played out. 



