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better, and you generally get it. It is 

 best, when a plant does not produce a 

 flower up to grade, to dig it up and dis- 

 card it, but those that are good should be 

 marked in some manner to identify them. 

 A label placed at their side will do, but the 

 better way is to get some small sheet-lead 

 tags, bearing stamped-in numbers or let- 

 ters. Attach to wire pegs ten inches long 

 and force down near the plant, recording 

 its number in your " Garden Book " with 

 a description of the flower. This enables 

 you at any planting time spring is the 

 best for delphiniums to plant in groups 

 of light blues, dark blues, etc. You may 

 be undecided sometimes as to whether you 

 consider a plant good enough to keep or 

 not. In this case keep it, but mark it a 

 " hold-over." Some plants do better the 

 second season. They may be sown out- 

 doors in May, but will hardly bloom the 

 same year. 



