^ The seed (and we may have it, novelties though they are) 

 should be Parted in three or four inch paper pots, never in 

 flats or frame beds, to secure the finest plants and few or 

 no losses, which is inevitable if you transplant them. When 

 pot-sown and grown to ^rong young plants, you will rarely 

 lose one. Ju^ see that the paper pot is slipped off gently 

 after a thorough watering which will keep the soil intacft. 

 In any other way than this they would objecTt to this method 

 of transplanting also. These Novelty Poppies are unbelievably 

 beautiful. Grow groups of them back of the late flowering 

 phlox for succession. They will bloom before the phlox 33 

 The new Cimicifuga (Simplex) a late bloomer is an excellent 

 companion to groups of Bertha Fairs, the lovely pink hardy 

 chrysanthemum whose long, strong ^tems carry her clear 

 pure pink clu^ers of flowers that mingle so merrily with the 

 white, feathery upright spikes of Cimicifuga Simplex, both 

 so charming and always blooming together. You probably 

 know Bertha Fairs is one of the " Wells of Mersham," English 

 novelties obtainable here. ** Wells of Mersham " has also 

 given us the fine^, the mo^ glowing crimson chrysanthemum, 

 for out of door growing up to the present time. Supreme 53 

 Yes, you will enthuse, too, over Supreme when you see it 

 with another of the Wells novelties, Portia, bronze and gold 

 and salmon with a dazzling crimson centre, and blooming 

 as they do the very fir^t week in Odtober makes them par- 

 ticularly desirable for late, but not too late, cutting flowers 

 with colorful unblemished Autumn leaves. 

 ^ A charming lily is Rhemanni, the pink calla. In form it 

 is identical to the golden and white calla, and it flourishes 

 with the same culture. 



^ There is a new Shasta Daisy, semi-double in form, with 



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