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perennial, but not hardy, and is most useful if 

 sown as I have suggested. 



Godetias. Charming flowers, and very effective, 

 but they will not move, and must be sown where 

 you want them to bloom. The colours vary from 

 white up to dazzling crimson, and the texture 

 of the flowers is very shining and bright. Each 

 plant should be given plenty of room, at least ten 

 inches apart, as, if they are crowded, the flowering 

 season is short, from the plants being poor and 

 starved ; but if you have a good group of plants, 

 each ten or twelve inches from the other, they will 

 soon fill up the space, and present a blaze of flowers 

 for some weeks ; they grow from one to two feet 

 high, according to the kind selected. There is a 

 double variety, G. Schamini fl. pi., which is distinct 

 and pretty, pale salmon-pink, and grows two feet 

 high in rich soil. 



Larkspur. Branching Larkspur (Delphinium 

 consolida) is a beautiful plant, growing three feet 

 high, flowering in August, and lasting a long 

 time. The young plants should be thinned to eight 

 or ten inches apart, and a large patch of this is very 

 showy and pretty in the dark-blue variety, or in the 

 newer scarlet which is really a brilliant salmon- 



