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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1907 



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It is well known in the trade that the easiest 

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The largest blue flower of the composite family, 

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I had forty plants to set out that spring, and 

 planted them in conditions utterly unlike 

 their native ones — in a well enriched, sandy 

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 four thousand plants, which were pricked 

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