SPECIAL PURPOSES 



Marigold, or the velvety African variety, with 

 flowers of a dark maroon shading to blackish- 

 brown — can be grown at its base, with fine effect. 



Sweet Peas make a good screen if given 

 proper support, and planted thickly. 



" I would like a large group or bed of orna- 

 mental foliaged plants on the lawn, but have 

 grown rather tired of Cannas and Caladiums. 

 What would you suggest? I don't want any- 

 thing hard to grow." 



If very large plants are wanted, I would ad- 

 vise, as best of all, Ricinus, better known, per- 

 haps, as Castor Bean, or Castor Plant. This is 

 an annual of wond'erfuUy vigorous growth. It 

 often reaches a height of ten feet, in good soil, 

 with a corresponding spread of branches. Its 

 leaves are often a yard across, of a dark coppery 

 bronze, with a purplish metallic lustre that makes 

 the plant very striking. The best effect is se- 

 cured by growing four or five plants in a group. 

 None of the tropical plants that have come into 

 prominence in gardening, during the past ten 

 or twelve years, are nearly as effective as this 

 teasily-grown annual, whose seeds sell at five 

 cents a package. For a very prominent location 

 on the lawn or anywhere about the home-grounds 

 no better plant could be selected. 



The Amaranthus advised for hedge use makes 



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