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If earlier bloom is desired, the plants must be 

 started indoors. Both the African and French 

 Marigolds do well in rich loam, but signata 

 requires poor soil to produce the best effects in 

 bloom. Owing to. the late period of flowering, I 

 have never been able to gather the seeds of the 

 Marigold. However, I have had no difficulty in 

 getting satisfactory results from seeds purchased 

 from the dealers, with one exception, when no 

 seeds at all out of full two ounces seemed to 

 possess the power of germinating. 



It is a pity that the California Poppy was not 

 discovered by a botanist bearing a more manage- 

 able name than Eschscholtz, and it was a poet 

 too, Adalbert von Chamisso, who was guilty of 

 the atrocity of naming the genus Eschscholtzia 

 in honor of its discoverer. Notwithstanding 

 its abominable name, it is a beautiful and desir- 

 able flower, a perennial in its native home, south- 

 ern California, but in the north treated as an 

 annual. It grows about fifteen inches high, and 

 the type, E. Californica, bears a bright orange- 

 yellow flower, darker at the centre and lighter at 

 the extremities. There are a number of varieties, 

 much confused, because much mixed in growing 

 together. E. crocea is of a deep yellow or saffron 



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