bare by the passing of the Madonna Lilies, canterbury bells, etc. 

 All the delicate blue salvias are succession flowers, and bring to 

 our gardens in late July and August a welcome and renewed 

 freshness, a generosity of display that can be quite the equal of 

 the earlier months if we will but plan for it. 



While the blue salvias are perennials, they are tender and 

 only come through the Winter in the most favorable climate, but 

 they can be grown as annuals, and will bloom in late Summer from 

 Spring sown seed. Perhaps those that bear the delicately fash- 

 ioned sky-blue tassels are the favorites, I love them, too, but I am 

 more interested in the uncommon variety, Salvia Patens. There 

 is no flower that it resembles, and there is only one blue, equally 

 as blue, and that is the blue of the J. S. Brunton delphinium, with 

 its velvet-like blossom that really feels like velvet. The seed 

 grown plants develop tubers which can be taken up and stored 

 away like gladioli corms, dahlias, etc. Parterre beds of Salvia 

 Patens bordered with the very novel miniature Nicotiana that 

 have flowers open in the daytime, are gems of delicacy in appear- 

 ance, but they are only delicate in appearance, for they need next 

 to nothing in the way of attention, beyond the care that is given 

 our other flowers, but from their appearance it might be assumed 

 they required and demanded a great deal of care and attention. 

 The dwarf Nicotiana is a decided novelty, not only because it is 

 the only dwarf form, but unlike its taller brothers, the flowers 

 are open all day instead of only in the evening. Each floret has 

 the thick richness of glace kid, and they are identical with the 

 exotic Stephanotis, and you can grow it with perfect success from 

 Spring sown seed. If you have been told that the ( Fairy Orchid 

 Flower) Schizanthus cannot be well grown in the open garden, 

 I hope you will experiment with the variety Beauty of Trent, a 

 snow-white silvery out-of-doors Schizanthus, as lovable and as 

 practical a flower as gypsophila for softening and bringing grace 

 to wiry stemmed flowers, and a flower that can be grown in the 

 very same way as gypsophila. The seed should be sown every 

 two or three weeks for succession, but it should always be sown 

 thinly, thinly, thinly, that is, if broad branching robust plants are 

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