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number of different colors, and therefore I prefer 

 to plant a goodly number of seeds of a few choice 

 varieties. I have more than once tried planting 

 Mignonette or Shirley Poppies beside the Sweet 

 Pea vines, and though the result as a whole was 

 most attractive, covering up the bare ground, my 

 experience is that the presence of any plants close 

 to the vines retards their growth and lessens 

 their production of flowers. 



There is a dwarf Sweet Pea highly commended 

 by the growers, called the " Cupid," which I have 

 tried for several successive seasons, but without 

 any good results. It is possible that others may 

 have succeeded with this new plant, but my ex- 

 perience has been most discouraging. The seeds 

 germinated and the plants bloomed, but the flow- 

 ers were small and scanty. 



Salpiglossis sinuata is a Chilian plant, which was 

 fully described a century or more ago, and yet, 

 as an ornament to our gardens, it seems to be 

 almost unknown. It resembles the Petunia 

 somewhat in shape, but its colorings are the 

 richest imaginable, and in texture appears as if 

 made of the finest and silkiest of velvet. There 

 are numerous colorings in the species, enabling 

 the seedsmen to offer unnumbered named varie- 



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