dusting of silver powder, a most unusual feature. There is but 

 one other Delphinium that I know of that possesses this dis- 

 tinguishing silver touch and that one is Bleu Tendre, whose long 

 spires are white, suffused with a delicate blue and over all this 

 a rare silvery glow. The King of Delphiniums, a searching deep 

 blue; Beauty of Langport, creamy white with a golden center; 

 Antigone, blue and lilac; Rev. E. Lascelles, rich blue; Prince 

 Henry, reddish purple; Willy Obreen, blue and rose; Progression, 

 white and gold; Lorenzo de Medici, gray blue; Porcelain Sceptre, 

 wedgewood blue; dear old familiar deep blue Formosum; Duke 

 of Connaught, blue and lavender rose; Corry, with its double 

 flowers of sky blue and glow of crimson are all wonderful. 



Then the dwarfs of the family, Zuyder Zee, Chinensis white 

 and Chinensis blue and Cineraria Caeruleum. These low grow- 

 ing Delphiniums are indispensable; they are as hardy as an oak. 



All the Delphiniums require a very rich, well-drained soil 

 and while they must have their faded flowers cut away, it is only 

 when the whole stalk is cut down right to within a few inches 

 of the ground that new flowering stalks are produced again im- 

 mediately. With the Belladonna hybrids, the cutting down is 

 most essential and if bone flour and a little lime or wood ash 

 are worked into the soil thoroughly all around the crown (or 

 clump) you will be astonished how nourished and eager to bloom 

 again they will be. I find a little Scotch soot dusted over the sur- 

 face soil is sure death to the Delphinium grub besides giving a 

 depth and richness of tone to the flowers. Coal ashes heaped 

 over the crowns for the Winter is a wise precaution too, and I 

 always allow it to remain or most of it when the "cleaning up" 

 process is under way in the Spring. Even those who are rather 

 indifferent to flowers often feel an almost sentimental interest, even 

 an affection, for Delphiniums. Perhaps it is because most of them 

 are blue. One of the most impressive garden pictures I have 

 ever seen was a hedge, a practical hedge it was too, made with 



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