HELIOTROPE AND ROSES 



Will you agree with me that everyone loves heliotrope? Many 

 flower lovers consider it the most charming of all the annuals, 

 because of its color and perfume and because it blooms from June 

 to frost. Certain shades are invaluable in our gardens. The light 

 shades I personally do not care for; the rich velvety purples are 

 so much more beautiful, and it is only in these deep tones that the 

 large flower heads are produced. The more heliotrope is cut, the 

 more one has to cut ; and I wish I could impress upon all amateur 

 gardeners the importance of cutting their flov/ers. 



I recall a very sweet garden picture. The great-grandfather 

 in a certain household, frail and very old, was wheeled out in his 

 chair every morning to the edge of the terrace, where he could see 

 a great bed of deep purple heliotrope. There were two varieties, 

 the tall Centefleur and the dwarf Madame Bruant, edged with a 

 two-foot border of that rare little rose, Mme. Cecile Brunner some- 

 times called Mignon and Sweetheart, Mme. Cecile Brunner is such 

 a good rose, it is alv/ays in bloom. 



These small rose bushes were placed twelve inches apart, and 

 among the flower trusses of the heliotrope, the clustered pink 

 sprays of these miniature, fairy-like roses peeped out. 



The tall Centefleur and the dwarf Madame Bruant have im- 

 mense flowers of an indescribable purple. Working sheep fer- 

 tilizer and a little Scotch soot into the soil wherever heliotrope 

 is planted will give you the greatest abundance of deep toned and 

 beautiful heliotrope. 



To keep the Cecile Brunner rose free from its one enemy, 

 blackspot, give it the usual routine spraying that the other roses 

 receive and it will be free from that disfigurement all Summer. 



There are several dwarf varieties of heliotrope quite as de- 

 sirable as the Madame Bruant; fortunately one is not limited to 

 just one variety of hardly any garden flower. 



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