PLANTING LIST 



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whose recent varieties, in white, the reds, and purple, are very- 

 beautiful, though very expensive. The plant grows about eighteen 

 inches high, and is excellent, with its handsome flowers borne all 

 through the summer, for beds and borders, and for the house. The 

 petunia likes rich soil, but endures drought well; it is tender to 

 frost. Varieties 

 are single and 

 double, plain and 

 ruffled. The seed 

 is very small, and 

 should be simply 

 pressed into the 

 ground, and then 

 kept moist. Sow 

 under glass in early 

 April, outdoors 

 after the middle 

 of May. Trans- 

 plant to a foot or 

 more apart. 



The new and 

 expensive kinds 

 are not yet fixed, 

 and may not al- 

 ways bear double 

 flowers. To get a 

 good show of them, 

 take out all that 

 bear single flowers, 

 setting them else- 

 where ; and take cuttings as soon as possible from the plants that 

 bear double flowers. 



Fig. 199. — Phlox comes in many varieties. 



Phlox. This comes in three important forms. 

 Drummond Phlox, sometimes called Flame Flower: A hardy, 

 annual, low-growing plant, one of the best for edgings and low 



