256 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS 



The Lavateras (Rose Mallows) are splendid plants for dry soils, 

 blooming profusely and long where most other plants would fade 

 quickly. The best forms are roseo-splendens and its white variety. 

 Both have flowers as large as those of climbing Convolvuluses. 



The Night-scented Stock should be sown in patches near the 

 windows of the house, so that the delicious odour which it exhales 

 may enter the house. It is a somewhat straggly grower, and the 

 colour is not bright in fact, the flowers look quite withered 

 throughout the day, and only present any semblance of beauty at 

 night. But it is very persistent, lasting quite into the autumn. 



There are now a very large number of Nasturtiums. The Tom 

 Thumb varieties, such as Empress of India, are very vivid. The 

 variegated leaf variety is interesting and attractive. It rambles 

 freely, and is well worth growing. Sunlight is a yellow of medium 

 height, but self-supporting. The Ivy-leaved Nasturtiums are also 

 good things. 



There is a splendid variety of Love-in-a-Mist, called Miss 

 Gertrude Jekyll, which ought to be got. It is worth trouble to 

 procure, being double the size of the old one, and a lovely shade 

 of pale blue. The plant blooms incessantly for three or four 

 months, and does not mind dry soil. 



The Shirley Poppies are beautiful singles that one can buy in 

 mixture. They are brilliant but ephemeral, and some of the giant 

 doubles, which can be had in scarlet, white, striped, pink, and 

 other colours, should be grown. They are splendid plants in beds, 

 for their leaves are handsome, and when the huge flowers are 

 thrown up well above the foliage on tall, strong stems, there are 

 few garden plants to excel them. 



The Saponarias and Silenes share with Candytuft, Bartonia, 

 Collinsia, Limnanthes, Nemophila, and Virginian Stock the merit 

 of being good spring as well as summer bloomers. To flower in 

 spring they should be sown at the end of August. 



The Scabious (not strictly an Annual) and the Sweet Sultan 



