Gardening for Amateurs 



Perennial Hybrids is offered in mixture from 

 seeds. The colours include crimson, scarlet.. 

 purple, magenta, carmine, and mauve. They 

 grow 2 to 3 feet high. The blue bedding 

 Lobelia is quite distinct from these. 



Lupinus (Lupin). Every lover of the 

 perennial border includes Lupins in his 

 collection, but comparatively few are aware 

 how easily the plants are raised from seeds. 

 A packet of mixed seeds should contain pink, 

 blue, mauve, and white varieties. That 

 lovely pink-flowered sort Moerheimi, in 



Ly thrum Salicaria (Loosestrife). 



There are two very attractive varieties of 

 the Purple Loosestrife, roseum and superbum. 

 Both are worthy of a place in a collection 

 of perennials. With their bright rosy-red 

 flowers on stems growing some 3 feet high, 

 they are good border plants for moist soils 

 and by the waterside. The Loosestrife seeds 

 very freely. 



Pentstemon. The old method of propa- 

 gating Pentstemons by cuttings inserted in 

 cold frames during autumn is now seriously 



Violas, or Tufted Pansies, are readily raised from seed. 



common with others, can be readily flowered 

 the first year from seeds. 



Lychnis (Campion). Several of the pe- 

 rennial Campions are easily flowered from 

 seeds the same year as sown, and are fine 

 plants for bedding. Lychnis (Agrostemma) 

 coronaria, the Crown Campion, is a most 

 useful plant for large and small gardens. It 

 thrives in most soils, and in sun or shade ; 

 2 feet high. Lychnis haageana is a lovely 

 dwarf Campion, 9 to 12 inches high, with 

 scarlet flowers. There is also a selection of 

 varieties with salmon, crimson, orange-red, 

 and white flowers. 



rivaUed by treating them as half-hardy 

 annuals and sowing seeds in warmth during 

 February. Growing 2 to 2f feet in height, 

 the tall spikes of richly coloured flowers 

 are freely produced from July to November. 

 Beautiful for beds and borders. 



Scabiosa caucasica (Scabious). The 

 soft mauve flowers of the Caucasian Scabious 

 should be grown extensively for cutting. 

 The flowers are borne on long slender stems 

 about 2 feet high. There is also a white 

 variety alba. 



Tritoma (Red-hot Poker). The intro- 

 duction of the new race of hvbrid Red-hot 



