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seeds you will have to pay eight or ten times as 

 much for seeds of double flowers as you will be 

 asked for single varieties. Only a portion of the 

 flowers, however, will be double, even if you do 

 buy the double seeds, while if you get single seeds, 

 you will have some double flowers, if you enrich the 

 soil abouttheplantswhen they are a couple of inches 

 high. If you wish to have a bed all single or all 

 double, you can gradually secure this by transplant- 

 ing and setting out cuttings in place of the plants 

 taken away. I never buy the seeds of separate 

 colors, for they are not only very expensive, but, to 

 my taste, useless, as the bed is much finer contain- 

 ing all the varieties, and in any event only a small 

 percentage of the seeds will ever come true to color. 

 Linum grandiflorum, L. coccineum, L. rubrum. 

 Red or Scarlet Flax, is a half-hardy perennial 

 from north Africa, which blooms the first year 

 from seed, and therefore may be treated as an 

 annual. It grows one foot high, and bears bright 

 crimson-red flowers, one inch in diameter. Its 

 foliage is fine, and the delicate stems bearing the 

 bright flowers make it an attractive object in the 

 bed. It likes plenty of sunshine, and blooms 

 from July i8th to frost, and earlier flowers may 

 be obtained by sowing the seed in the fall. 



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