AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



are easily collected, and should be sown in the 

 fall to insure early blooming. I sow broadcast 

 on a finely raked bed, and after sowing, work 

 the back of the rake lightly over the soil so as 

 to settle the seeds a little below the surface. I 

 do not sow the different colors in separate beds, 

 but prefer to let the mass show all its variety 

 of shade, and indeed, if a Shirley Poppy strays 

 into the bed, as is apt to be the case, for the 

 Shirlies live just next door, I never disturb it, 

 but let its little pink and white face peep out 

 from between a pair of the long legs of the blue- 

 capped Larkspurs. It blooms from July 5th to 

 August 1 2th from fall-sown seeds. 



The annual Phlox of our gardens comes from 

 Phlox Drummondii, which was first found in Texas. 

 By cultivation, the coloring and even the shape 

 of the flower has been varied to a remarkable 

 degree. There are several colorings in a double 

 form which I do not care to raise ; the single 

 flowers being to my mind much handsomer, as 

 they are at the same time much larger. Where 

 a flower shows but a single shade, it may possibly 

 be improved by doubling, but where, as is so often 

 the case with most of the Poppies and so many 

 others of our annuals, the beauty of the blossom 



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