PERENNIALS AND BIENNIALS 



It blooms for six weeks and more in summer, 

 is very hardy, and its seeds will soon fill its own 

 bed with plants, and invade others fifty feet or 

 more away. 



Dianthus plumarius, the old-fashioned Garden 

 or Scotch Pink, needs no description. Some of 

 the varieties are not hardy enough to stand the 

 cold winters on the island, and among them is the 

 so-called " Hardy Pink Her Majesty." It will 

 not live there, and, indeed I have had no success 

 at all with plants or seeds of any of the varieties so 

 highly praised. All on the island have been 

 raised of late years from seed gathered there. I 

 set the plants one foot apart, and then plant seeds 

 in the spaces between them. The following year 

 I repeat this operation at another spot. This 

 ought to insure constant bloom, but it does not 

 always do so, and every now and then we have a 

 year almost devoid of pink blossoms, though the 

 plants seem to be large and healthy and able to 

 bear flowers if they would. Its bloom begins on 

 the island June 15th, continuing to August ist. 

 The seeds are not hard to collect, but as nature 

 intended to drop them gradually, and not all at 

 once, you will find that they may be dislodged 

 much easier if the pods be allowed to ripen thor- 



