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worth going a long way to see. The hollyhock requires 

 little care in general, but of late years what is known 

 as the blight has much injured the plantings, unless 

 treatment with bordeaux mixture has been given early 

 in the growing season, as soon as the stalks begin to 

 form, and repeated at intervals on the underside of 

 the leaves until the blight has been checked. 



Both the old-fashioned larkspurs and the newer 

 named delphiniums, especially the Gold Medal del- 

 phiniums, are practically everblooming, for if the 

 plants are cut back to the ground when through their 

 first season of bloom a second crop of flowers lasting 

 well through the fall will be produced. The del- 

 phiniums may be planted outdoors in May in the vege- 

 table garden and cultivated during summer and lifted 

 and planted where they are to remain in the fall or 

 the following spring. Usually they will give single 

 spikes of bloom the first year so that one may make 

 selections of the more desirable sorts, though there 

 are few discards in this beautiful flower which often 

 grows five or six feet tall with spikes of beautiful 

 flowers from a foot to eighteen inches long in all the 

 shades of blue from the palest azure to the deepest 

 ultramarine, with pink, white, black or bronze eyes. 

 Surely no flower of the garden is more worthy of ex- 

 tended cultivation. 



Of the Sweet Williams no sort has attracted more 

 favorable attention than the Newport Pink, a distinct 



