VARIOUS 
JUNE 
Color 
English 
Name 
Botanical 
Name and 
Synonyms 
Description 
Height 
cand, 
Situation 
Time of 
Bloom 
62, 57 
33, 34, 
35, etc. 
Some- 
times 
43 dull 
Various 
Various 
CHINESE 
LARKSPUR 
SWEET 
WILLIAM 
COMMON 
FOXGLOVE 
VIRGINIA 
WATER- 
LEAF 
GERMAN 
JAPANESE 
IRIS 
**Delphinium 
grandiflérum 
var. 
Chinénse 
**Didnthus 
barbatus 
**Digitalis 
purptrea 
D. tomentosa 
Hydrophfl- 
lum 
Virginicum 
**Tris 
Germanica 
vars. 
+tLris 
levigata 
1. Kampferi 
Any good well enriched garden soil. 
There are many double and single 
vars. Caucasus. 
A lovely slender-stemmed bushy 
species. Numerous long-spurred flow- 
ers deep or light blue or white. Lower 
petals and spur sometimes violet and 
upper petals yellow. Pretty, deeply 
divided leaves. Charming in masses. 
If the plant is cut back after flowering 
it will bloom again. Prop. by seed, 
division and cuttings. Deep friable or 
sandy soil, well enriched. China. 
Vigorous quickly spreading plant 
which blooms profusely. Flowers in 
flat-topped clusters, pink, white, red 
and parti-colored. Single and double 
vars. Good for cutting. Single dark 
vars. are prettiest. An old garden 
favorite. Prop. by seed. Any soil. 
Central and S. Phirope: See Plate, 
page 266. 
Usually a biennial plant but often 
self-perpetuating. “ables flowers 
varying from deep purplish pink to 
white, often prettily spotted, droop 
from tall flower stalks. Foliage in 
clumps at the base. The white is by 
far the prettiest kind. Very effective 
in clumps among shrubs in the wild 
garden or border, or naturalized in 
masses. If cut down it will keep on 
flowering somewhat through the sum- 
mer. Prop. by seed. Rich light soil 
preferable. Europe. See Plates, pages 
166 and 176. 
*&Var. gloxiniefiora, (D. gloxinoides, 
D. gloxinieflora). A robust var. 
larger in every way than the type. 
Hort. The trade offers var. alba 
which is not spotted. 
See page 156. 
See page 156. 
One of our most beautiful and ef- 
fective plants which forms vigorous 
clumps. Flowers large and flat, some- 
times 10 in. across, ranging in color 
from white to deep blue and plum 
color, sometimes mottled or deeply 
veined. Narrow erect leaves. Beau- 
tiful in masses beside water or in the 
border. Water freely during flower- 
1-2 ft. 
Sun 
10-18 in 
Sun 
2-3 ft. 
Sun or 
halj 
shade 
2-3 ft. 
Sun 
June, 
July 
June, 
early 
July 
Mid. 
May to 
July 
Late 
May, 
June 
June, 
July 
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