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plants in a shorter time, but there is no lasting quality to such 

 stock. A far better way is to transplant or pot them up singly; 

 they will then have a chance to branch out and develop into bushy 

 specimens by the time you want them in May. 



Lobelias can also be propagated from cuttings. Lift a few 

 plants from the field in the Fall; pot them up and carry them over 

 in a cool house. A few plants will give you many hundreds of cut- 

 gings. Kathryne Mallard, the double sort, does not grow from 

 seed, but is a fine variety well worth having. 



Lobelia cardinalis is a handsome herbaceous plant for the hardy 

 border, most effective when massed. It sends up slender stalks 

 two to three feet tall covered with cardinal red blossoms. It is 

 native to many sections of the United States and when you consider 

 that more or less difficulty is often experienced in growing the plants 

 on from seed with all possible care, one wonders how they become 

 estabUshed in low places often under water during Winter and 

 Spring. Yet there they are by the thousand, a mass of fire, more 

 glowing than Salvias at their best. 



For flowering plants, sow in late Summer and, if possible, 

 transplant early so as to obtain well established plarts by Fall. 

 They will bloom the following year. There is no use planting Lobelias 

 in dry locations; they want a lot of moisture and a light soil. 



LONICERA (HONEYSUCKLE) 



If you handle nursery stock and have a piece of land where you grow 

 on a part of it, by all means cany enough Honeysuckles. For they 

 always sell and there is hardly another flowering shrub that will 

 get along with less care. It doesn't mind in what soil it is grown, 

 where it is planted, or how you treat it; it seems to be ever ready to 

 show its appreciation in a wealth of blossoms, most of them delightfully 

 fragrant; or by covering itself with red berries all Summer, as is the case 

 with L. bella albida or L. Morrowii. 



The best known of the Bush Honeysuckles is Lonicera iatarica, 

 of which we have both a pink and a white sort. There are but few 

 people who don't know a Tartarian Honeysuckle. You may see it as 

 a specimen plant fifteen feet high, loaded down with flowers in June, 

 but even when only two feet tall it is equally as well adapted for use 

 as a hedge plant. Where you want to obtain a quick growth to 

 screen a building or a backyard, there is nothing much better than 

 the Tartarian Honeysuckle. 



L. bella albida can best be appreciated when given all the room 

 it needs to grow into a large specimen. To my mind it should 

 never be planted in massesor groups, but should be given from ten to 

 twelve feet to grow in. You never see it at its best except when alone. 



