AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



dwarfer, larger flowering plants are about one foot 

 high. The dwarfer varieties are the favorites 

 generally among growers, the range of color 

 being large, and embracing white, canary-yellow, 

 pink, rose, scarlet, crimson, blood-red, copper, 

 light blue, violet, lavender, and purple. There 

 are indeed few flowers in cultivation offering a 

 wider range of color. A still dwarfer strain is 

 the Snowflake, a double white flower, on which 

 the Dwarf White Pyramid is said to be an 

 improvement. The miniature Pearl is also 

 white and does not exceed six inches in height. 

 The Pyramidal form is probably the best of 

 them all, and is certainly so in my experience. 

 The plants are neat and compact in habit, while 

 the flowers are large, furnishing all the well- 

 known colors of the species. The seed is usually 

 planted indoors in April, and the plants set out 

 in the garden after danger from frost is past. I 

 have uniformly planted in the open ground in 

 May, and therefore do not get as early flowers as 

 I might by the former method. The Interme- 

 diate species are too late in their blooming 

 period to be grown successfully in northern 

 Maine, and the biennials are not hardy enough to 

 stand the cold of our winters. 



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