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A LITTLE BOOK OF PERENNL\LS 



Culture. Flax is very easy of culture, growing readily in any 

 good garden soil in full sunlight. 



Propagation. It is propagated by seeds and division of the 

 plants. 



Lobelia 



Natives of our woods, in bosky places we find two exquisite wild 

 Lobelias, the Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis, and the Great 

 Lobeha, L. syphilitica, a blue sort. Both sorts vary greatly in height, 

 some growing 3 feet or 4 feet tall, other plants being hardly a foot tall. 

 Some of the European catalogs list sorts of the Cardinal Flower which 

 have bronze colored leaves, but these sorts are not seen in America. 

 They bloom from July to September. 



Uses. They are at home in damp spots of the gardens, and along 

 the waterside. The Great Lobelia prefers wetter places than the 

 Cardinal Flower. When grown in dry places, they suffer from drought; 

 they often thrive in the ordinary garden soil, but are not as tall as in 



Left, Lupines, the taU spires of blue, purple, white or pink flowers making 

 points of interest in the border; rif/ht. Blue Lobelia, one of the charming blue 



natives. 



