FEISENNIALS BLOOMING THE FIRST SUMMER 

 FROM EARLY SPRING SOWN SEED 



Y starting seed in early Spring Cthe early 

 part of March^ in the hot frame or green- 

 house, the following perennials will bloom 

 the coming Summer. Be extravagant when 

 ordering seeds of blue flowers. One cannot 

 have too much blue in one's garden; besides, blue neu- 

 tralizes colors and in many cases acts as a foil. If you 

 plant a group of blue flowering Salvia directly next to 

 red or magenta or orange or pink, all these colors are 

 enhanced by the contrast with the blue. Really, one 

 of the most practical as well as one of the sweetest, 

 loveliest of all perennials is about as simple to grow 

 as grass seed or weeds or the ugly things. I refer to 

 the dwarf blue Delphinium Chinensis. From seed 

 sown in the early Spring of this valuable garden beau- 

 tifying flower will bloom generously from mid-Summer 

 to Autumn. The white variety, Chinensis Alba, will 

 also flower, as well as the ever-blooming Forget-Me- 

 Not, Palustris Semperflorens, also the English Daisies, 

 Iceland Poppies, Sweet William, Pansies, Viola Cor- 

 nuta, Heuchera, Lychnis, Platqcodons, tall and dwarf 

 Mariesi, Hardy Primulas, Anemones, French and Irish, 

 Aubrietias, Dianthus. 



When the seedlings of these have been "hardened 

 oT* do not make the mistake of planting out too early 



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