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The Culture of Larkspurs 
ARKSPURS have three serious troubles. | 
Cutworms are sometimes very destruc- 
tive in spring. These have to be dug out; 
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it is well to reset the plants in new places, — 
adding a little tobacco dust to the soil. 
Slugs often eat the crowns. The pre- 
ventive is to scatter ashes over the crowns 
at the approach of winter. 
The cause and cure of larkspur blight 
are unknown, but the United States Depart- 
ment of Agriculture is studying it and 
Dr. Erwin F. Smith will be glad to have 
specimens. Until a cure is found, the 
best thing we can do is to spray the plants 
weekly with Bordeaux mixture or ammo- 
niacal carbonate of copper, beginning as 
soon as growth starts. Also dig dry Bor- 
deaux about the crowns. 
It is costly and risky to import the hybrids 
and they ordinarily live only three or four 
years here. Gardeners generally prefer to 
keep raising larkspurs every year from 
seed, as seedlings seem more resistant to 
blight than plants propagated by division. 
The inferior forms can be used for wild 
gardening, and the best reserved for propa- 
gating by division. The best time to divide 
larkspurs is in spring, just when growth 
starts. A better way to propagate doubles 
and choice forms is by cuttings, as the plants 
seem to have a better constitution, but this 
method requires a coldframe and a good 
deal of care. Put cuttings three inches 
long in two-inch pots of sandy soil in March 
or September. 
Larkspurs are gross feeders and like 
a rich, heavy soil. They will grow six or 
eight feet high in soil that is heavily manured | 
The greatest height of — 
and always moist. 
plant I find recorded is twelve feet; the 
greatest number of spikes for one plant, 
forty-one; the longest spike, twenty-six 
inches; the thickest spike, four inches in 
diameter; the largest individual flowers 
two and a half inches across. Of course, 
such great plants need staking, and to avoid 
a bunched look put five or six light stakes 
around each good plant instead of using one 
big one. 
Dig deep holes and set the plants three 
to four feet apart according to the amount 
of manure used. Mulch the plants so that 
the hot sun will not strike the bare 
ground. Water freely in hot 
Replant every two or three years in fresh 
places. 
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There are two ways of getting a second ~ 
crop of bloom from larkspurs. The better is to 
