HE Delphinium, even though it is indeed 

 a royal plant of ancient lineage, and 

 used to praises long, is as easy to grow 

 successfully as an annual. 

 The family is a very large and most repre- 

 sentative one, and while I know almost all of 

 its members and admire them greatly, it is the 

 Belladonna hybrids I love the best. Is it any 

 wonder that these blessed optimists, these 

 gracious beauties, that bloom from early June 

 to harvest time have a hold so firm and so strong 

 upon our affections that even the rose may take 

 heed? Marvelous Capri, whose flowers are as 

 blue as the bluest sky, and rare Moerheimi, just 

 as white and ethereal as a soft bit of cloud on 



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