RAISING FLOWERS FROM SEED 



their permanent home is prepared and there 

 they are carefully removed. 



If some of the delphiniums are to be placed 

 in the back of a border, they are planted two 

 feet apart, as in the borders we want the 

 growth to be close ; but, if they are to be 

 grown in rows, these rows are made three feet 

 apart and trenched one foot deep. In the 

 bottom of the trench about seven inches of 

 cow manure is placed, and the trench is filled 

 high with rich earth because it will always 

 settle; the plants, then one year old, are set 

 out three feet apart in the trench, and in the 

 late autumn some coal-ashes are sifted over 

 them. In two years' time rows so planted are 

 a solid mass of color when the larkspurs are 

 blooming. 



In the spring, when the plants are well up, 

 a large trowelful of bone meal is dug about 

 each plant, and when they are three feet in 

 height they are all staked. This is absolutely 

 necessary because of the winds, as the stalks 

 of the delphinium are so tender that one 



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