THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



The verbenas responded to the tonic of 

 Bon Arbor by remaining a sheet of color 

 from June until late in October, and the 

 giant ruffled petunias were indeed giants of 

 their kind. 



Heliotrope and stocks, as well as the asters, 

 were most grateful for their meals of Bon 

 Arbor, the heliotrope yielding clusters the 

 largest and darkest in color we have ever 

 raised. They seemed to be unaffected by 

 the drought, and continued to bloom until 

 killed by the frost. 



Stocks will benefit by a small amount of 

 bone meal given them when first set out and 

 again at the end of two months; and if the 

 asters, when ready to bud, receive, in addi- 

 tion to the Bon Arbor, a little wood -ashes, 

 together with a very little nitrate of soda, 

 and have, besides, rich soil and plenty of 

 water, they will produce larger flowers and 

 more abundantly. 



All the campanula family, especially the 

 Campanula medium, the Canterbury bell, 



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