396 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



You will want a 



few clumps, which will 



take care of themselves 



and pay good interest 



on the investment in 



the form of the stock 



they supply you with 



each year. H. flava is 



the most commonly 



seen, while H. Kwanso 



flore pleno is more 



^ showy with its double 



orange flowers blooming 



in July. H. Thunbergii is a 



single yellow form coming into 



bloom still later. 



HEN AND CHICKENS 



See Echeveria 



HEUCHERA SANGUINEA 



If for no other reason than for 

 variety's sake, a few of these grace- 

 ful June-flowering perennials should 

 be found in the hardy border. They 

 grow about two feet in height, the 

 pinkish, bell-shaped flowers being 

 While you may have the Shasta 

 Daisies, Gaillardias, Coreopsis, Delphiniums, Sweet Williams and 

 many others at their best, your assortment is hardly complete 

 without Heuchera. A few sprays cut with stems 18 in. long will 

 go nicely with almost any basket arrangement of cut flowers and 

 will surely be appreciated by your patrons. 



It was away back in 1893 that I sowed a little package of seed 

 sent to me by the introducers, Haage and Schmidt of Erfurt, 

 Germany, and I have managed to grow a few plants each year 

 ever since, propagating them partly from seed and partly by di- 

 vision of the field clumps in early September. 



Of late years quite a number of other beautiful Heucheras 

 have been introduced, among them "Walker's variety," with larger 

 and better colored flowers than H. sanguinea. H. splendens 

 has bright scarlet flowers and Nebulance has creamy white 

 flowers. 



Fig. 179. — Hibiscus may be 

 used in the hardy border or 

 given a place by itself. Its 

 large, showy flowers always at- 

 tract attention 



borne on slender stems. 



