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demonstrated the kinds to use for certain purposes, then I have 

 accomplished my desire. 



Discussion. 



Wilfrid V^Tieeler asked if it were possible to cut back certain 

 annuals, such as Alyssum, Ageratum, etc., and have them bloom 

 again. 



Mr. Cameron answered that it was a very good plan to do this 

 as the plant rapidly renewed itself and bloomed more freely; this 

 was expecially true of Alyssum. 



William N. Craig said he was surprised to hear Mr. Cameron 

 speak of a lack of \dgor in the newer varieties of sweet peas. He 

 had found them fully as robust as the older sorts and in some cases 

 more so. 



He recommended the use of single annual hollyhocks; sown in 

 February or March they would flower a good part of the summer 

 and were more disease proof than the perennial forms. The 

 colors in some cases were not desirable but were being constantly 

 improved upon. 



Mr. Craig said that he could not agree with the Lecturer in con- 

 sidering sweet Williams doubtfully hardy. On level ground where 

 water would stand they might winter-kill, but on any sloping land 

 they were as iron-clad as any perennial and needed a very light 

 protection. He had used Celsia arcturus as a bedding plant the 

 past summer; the seeds, sown in heat in March, started to bloom 

 in the border in July, and continued in flgwer until October. They 

 seemed to be almost hardy, withstanding a temperature of 18° 

 below freezing without injury. 



Mr. Craig advised several sowings of the annual poppies during 

 the season, otherwise big gaps in the border were inevitable. The 

 Shirleys should be sown four times; make the last sowing late in 

 July and they would bloom until cut down by frost. The flowers 

 in late fall lasted better cut than during the summer. The Mexican 

 poppy, Hunneviannia fumariaefolia, deserved to be more largely 

 grown. It kept four or five days fresh in a cut state and could 

 stand several degrees of frost. 



With Digitalis he had found that plants kept until a third year 



