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FAJIILIAli GJEDEN FLOWERS. 



be well placed no matter where they are, and therefore, 

 when self-sown plants occur where they seem intrusive, 

 it is well to leave them undisturbed if jjossible, for the 

 chances are all in favour of a surjarising success in the 

 end. In any and every case a good clump is better than 

 a few single plants, and it matters not how the sorts are 

 mixed ; in fact, the more mixing the better. 



To raise a stock of plants, the seed should be sown in 

 April or May in pans or boxes, and the young plants 

 should have a little nursing in a frame, and be put out 

 when large enough where they are to remaia for flowering. 

 A sowing of seed should be made every year, for although 

 many of the plants will flower a second, and even a third 

 time, a considerable proportion will die off after once 

 flowering. To promote the perennial character, the seed- 

 pods should be assiduously removed as the flowers wither, 

 and from the finest only should seed be taken for keeping 

 up the stock. 



A yellow foxglove is sometimes inquired after. There 

 is no such thing. But there are yellow species of Dif/italis, 

 such as B. gnnuViflora and D. Iniea, although they are not 

 of any special value as garden plants. 



