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THE FLOWER GABDE>~. 



white, red, pink, and crimson. Prefers light rich loam, 

 well drained. Though a hardy perennial, is best treated 

 as a biennial ; for the stools get loose and shabby after 

 the second year, and the heads of flowers are inferior for 

 want of a change of soil. Sow the seed, which is pro- 

 duced abundantly, in a preparatory bed, well manured, 

 in spring ; in October, prick out the plants where they 

 are to bloom, about six or eight inches apart every way. 

 By sowing thus every year, the plants which have 

 bloomed may be thrown away, to be succeeded by 

 younger and more vigorous individuals. Of course it 

 would be wrong to make the same bed produce London 

 Tufts, or anything else, year after year. A Flower 

 G-arden requires a rotation of crops, in the same way as 

 a farm, or a kitchen garden. Bouquet Parfait is the 

 flattering title which the French have bestowed on the 

 Sweet William. 



Lungwort — Puhnonaria mollis. — A boraginous, rough- 

 leaved, hardy plant, which was supposed to be service- 

 able in chest complaints, because its leaves are blotched 

 with light spots, producing a distant resemblance to 

 tuberculous consumption. Its pink and blue flowers are 

 rather pretty; grows almost anywhere from seeds and 

 bits of divided stool ; helps nicely to furnish the skirts of 

 a shrubbery. — See Forget-me-not. 



L wpine — Lupinus. — There are sub-shrubby, herbaceous, 

 and annual Lupines, mostly with pretty and abundant 

 flowers, in simple spikes, displaying clear bright tints of 

 blue, rosy-purple, yellow, and white. Their leaves are 

 mostly digitate, i.e. composed of from eight to a dozen 

 leaflets, which start like rays from the footstalk as a 

 common centre ; some, however, have their leaves entire. 

 The sub-shrubby Lupines are in general evergreen green- 

 house plants, though Z. Marsh alii 'anus is deciduous. 

 The perennial herbaceous kinds are, for the greater part, 

 hardy in England, and are valuable border-flowers for 

 their succession of blooms and rich colours ; of these, 

 L. pohjplujlhis, NbotkatensiSi latifolius, perennis. and 

 argenteus, are to be recommended ; while L. tristis, from 



