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free-blooming. Kathleen and Princess May are dark 

 art shades singular, swarthy flowers, almost suggesting 

 tapestry. Fringed Beauty is a great crimson fringed 

 flower with black bars. Queen Alexandra is a clear 

 salmon. Parkmanni is vermilion, with purple patches. 

 A. W. Chilley is a light " art " shade. Prince of Orange 

 is deep orange, while Royal Scarlet and Scarlet Defiance 

 are two large vivid scarlets. Silver Queen is pale rose. 

 These great Poppies are easily grown in ordinary border 

 soil ; given rich, moist ground the flowers may be nearly 

 a foot across and the stems a yard high. The smaller 

 Alpine and Iceland Poppies will not escape the notice 

 of those who like this genus, especially in view of their 

 value in the rock garden. 



PENTSTEMON. These beautiful late summer and 

 autumn flowers maintain a steady advance, and while few 

 who have grown them will ever relinquish their grip, those 

 who have the privilege of gardening in a moist climate 

 will develop the finest fervour of enthusiasm. The 

 Pentstemon will grow, and produce beautiful bloom- 

 spikes, in dry climates, if given good soil ; but it will 

 not throw up that succession of basal shoots which so 

 greatly facilitates the work of the gardener, not only 

 by filling out his borders and beds, but by giving abund- 

 ance of shoots for cuttings. It has come to be considered 

 that the Pentstemon is best treated as a biennial, being 

 propagated one year, flowered the next, and then dis- 

 carded, but there is no occasion to throw away strong 

 plants of vigorous sorts, because they will probably 

 become perennial. It not infrequently happens that 

 an old plant which has stood two or three years does 

 the best, and this is most likely to be the case in dry 

 summers, when it may be twice the size of the young 



