in full bloom, that is, if the little plants are not too mature. Of the 

 many varieties I prefer all gold, all pale rose, all peach or scarlet; I 

 might say that any of the all self colors are preferable to a mixture. 



Fortunately the seed may be obtained from most seedsmen 

 in the various different shades, as well as a mixture of all of them, 



Thefiowersof the double portulaca are as perfect and as exqui- 

 site as the blooms of the fairy roses, Cecil Brunner and Marie Pavie. 



FORGET-ME-NOTS 

 The most successful results with Forget-me-nots will be ob- 

 tained if Fall sown, just as with Portulaca, and sowing in just 

 the same manner. Should you be fortunate enough to have a 

 trickling brook or stream running through your land, sow on each 

 side of its banks to the water's edge for a ribbon of blue in the 

 Spring, and through all the Summer to Autumn. But to have this 

 ribbon of blue you must sow the ever-blooming hardy Palustris 

 semperflorens variety. 



CALIFORNIA POPPIES 



California Poppies should also be Fall sown, the same as Por- 

 tulaca, but as they are not so spready in habit as Portulaca or 

 Forget-me-nots, use two teaspoonfuls of the seed to a pint of sand. 



When deciding upon the color of the California Poppy seed 

 you intend to order, give preference to the gold and cream shades, 

 although Carmine King, Golden West, Mandarin, Mikado, and 

 Rose Cardinal are all lovely in the right place, and their right place 

 is not with or near delicate pink, fine buff, or salmon rose flowers. 



DWARF DELPHINIUM 



The seed of this rarely fine little hybrid, which is the gem in 

 miniature, of the lovable Delphinium family, should be sown as I 

 have suggested for Portulaca, Forget-me-nots, and California 

 Poppies, and in mid-May and early June you will have many sturdy 

 little seedlings to transplant to borders for edging, etc. 



Obtain the variety Chinensis grandiflorum ; it is the truest 

 azure blue, and it is hardy, absolutely hardy. 



FOX-GLOVES . . 



Sow the white, the unspotted white fox- 

 glove seeds in a sheltered spot, and you 

 have quantities of Spring seedlings to trans- 

 plant for a great white planting. 



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