SUCCESSION CROPS 



seldom as clear and fine as in the first crop. Green 

 leaves in plenty should be left, of course: the 

 lower part of Salvia patens is not attractive and 

 its pale-blue flowers have added beauty rising from 

 the fresh delphinium foUage. 



The plan of planting the everlasting pea (La- 

 thyrus latifolius, var. The Pearl) among delphin- 

 iums, to follow their bloom by clouds of white 

 flowers, is recommended by an English authority. 

 To continue the blue of tall delphinium, the very 

 best succession crop is that of Delphinium Chi- 

 nensis or grandiflora, the lower branching one with 

 the cut leaf; a fine hardy perennial in exquisite 

 shades of pale and deep blue, whose flowers are 

 at their very best immediately after the spikes 

 of their blue sisters have gone into retirement. 



The fine new Dropmore variety of Anchusa 

 Italica is exceedingly good placed near the vigor- 

 ous green spikes of the leaves of the white false 

 dragonhead (Pkysostegia Virginica, var. alba) : when 

 the latter is low, the great anchusa leaves nearly 

 cover it; and after the crop of brilliant blue 

 flowers is exhausted, and the robust plants are 

 cut back, the physostegia raises its tall white 

 spikes of bloom a few weeks later, brightening an 

 otherwise dull spot. 



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