CONTINUOUS BLOOM IN AMERICA MONTH 



COLOR HEIGHT 



Blue EUPATORIUM ccelestinum (Conoclinum coslestinum) : g ep t. i 

 Mistflower. Flower resembles the Ageratum. Plant ^ ** 

 remains dormant for some time after all others appear 

 in the spring, when it is difficult to detect life in roots 

 and for this reason it is often discarded for dead. 

 Keep permanent stake above it. Spreads rapidly by 

 root and is long-lived. Protect slightly in winter. 

 Six to ten plants to a clump. Prop, by cuttings and 

 suckers. 



EVENING PRIMROSE. See (Enothera. 

 FALSE DRAGON'S-HEAD. See Physostegia. 



\Vhite FEVERFEW, Double Camomile: Matricaria. Use June-Sept. 

 double white variety only. Sows itself freely and 

 these seedlings are hardy and transplantable at any 

 tune, sun or semi-shade. Bushy plant. Cut back 

 fading flowers to force later moderate bloom. It is 

 classed with hardy perennials, but not to be depended 

 upon for second-year bloom. Better treat it as a 

 hardy annual and sow in fall to bloom late June. For 

 best August to September blossom, sow seeds again 

 in spring instead of relying on the later blooms of the 

 older fall-sown plant which will have made its best 

 showing in June and July. 



Blue FORGET-ME-NOT: Myosotis palustris, var. semper- May-June 

 florens. . Sow August for bloom the next year. After 

 a summer's bloom lift the old plants and replace them, 

 after renourishing soil, with the numerous seedlings to 



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