But it is n't often that each member of a family is a real 

 beauty as are all the torenias, ten inch beauties that con- 

 tinue flowering all Summer long if they are not allowed to 

 go to seed 53 53 



^ Torenia White Wings has fairy-like flowers of soft-flesh 

 pink with a golden throat. Torenia Grandiflora is a true sky 

 blue, but with three dots of a deeper blue and a golden throat. 

 Torenia Speciosa is very new and her mauve-blue and white 

 flowers are larger than those of the other two. Torenia Bailloni 

 has golden flowers with a mauve throat. All of them are 

 excellent companions, particularly as border plants for the 

 less graceful dwarfs, such as the Tom Thumb snapdragons, 

 very dwarf phlox, the single, crested and frilled tuberous- 

 rooted begonias and the lilliputian zinnias, and I want to 

 assure you that the mo^ prejudiced of zinnia haters, will 

 find the lilliputians irresistible. 



^ In making a border of torenias do have at lea^ two rows 

 of them, bordered in turn with Farquhar's Azure Blue lobelia, 

 a tiny five inch bush smothered with soft blue flowers S& 53 

 ^ The seed of torenia should be very thinly sown in April, 

 the fir^ week if possible, but do not plant them out-of-doors 

 until the weather is warm and settled. Each plant should be 

 allowed ten inches of space at lea^t to obtain the beauty of 

 their full development for they are too rare to be huddled 

 together 53 53 



^ Yes, I know that if they are well spaced apart at fir^ they 

 make a very bare appearance, but it is this opportunity 

 that gives these very, very beautiful flowers their chance to 

 develop, whereas if crowded they will become tall and lanky. 



NICOTIANA HYBRIDS 

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