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great a favorite as the Rose : no garden ought to be 

 without several plants of it ; it comes in all shades of 

 red and rose, while many varieties have stripes and 

 flakes of these colors on white or yellow ground. 



Delphinium — The Perennial Larkspur; one of our 

 best border plants. It grows to a hight of four or five 

 feet, therefore is well adapted to back rows, and for 

 growing along fences. D. foriiwsuin is a most brilliant 

 blue, intense in tone and very effective. Other varie- 

 ties are scarlet, white and pink. When grown in 

 masses it produces a magnificent show of color. You 

 cannot afford to be without it. 



Digitalis — Better known as Foxglove ; a stately 

 plant, producing racemes of flowers two feet in length, 

 thimble-shaped, and prettily spotted ; purple and 

 white. 



Hollyhock — If we have a better border plant than 

 this, for general use, I would like to know what it is. 

 It combines stateliness of growth, beauty of color and 

 form, profusion of bloom, and ease of culture to an 

 extent seldom found in one plant. For large groups 

 in prominent places, for backgrounds, and for com- 

 bination with other plants of large growth, whose 

 colors require something in the way of contrast, it is 

 unexcelled. A group of the lemon-yellow varieties and 

 the blue Delphiniums produces a most striking effect. 

 In the newer strains we have scarlet, maroon, pure 

 white, rose, yellow, purple and almost black flowers, 

 as double as Cabbage Roses, with a delicacy of texture 

 quite unknown among the old single varieties. The 

 newer kinds are not such tall growers as the old ones, 

 but reach a hight of four to five feet. A row of them, 

 planted in the background of lower-growing plaiits, is 

 always sure to be admired. Be sure — ^be very sure — to 

 have at least a dozen or more plants of the Hollyhock. 

 The more the better, if you have room for them. A 



