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also be taken off, inserted in pots and treated as cuttings. If the plant is cut down in 

 summer, the shoots produced in autumn may be taken off in a similar way and 

 the pots in which they are placed kept in a frame the following winter. Plants thus 

 obtained ought to flower the next summer. 



The perennial larkspurs are easily raised from seeds, which are sometimes a little 

 slow in germination. They may be sown either in pans or boxes in a frame or green- 

 house, or in small beds in the open. This can be done in March or April, but seeds 

 sown under glass earlier in the season occasionally produce plants which will flower the 

 same year. When the young plants appear, it will be well to dust them over with 

 quicklime now and then to keep off the slugs. After the seedlings have made two of 

 their true leaves, prick them out into small beds a few inches apart, removing them the 

 following spring to where they are wanted to flower. The species can be raised in the 

 same way. 



There are some hundreds of named delphiniums in cultivation, but the following 

 are of first-class merit. 



Selections of Delphiniums. 



Varieties. 



*Albert Edward, plum. 

 *Aziyade, lavender blue. 

 *Beauty of Langport, cream. 

 Britannia, deep blue. 

 Dr. Mead, violet. 

 'Geneva, sky blue. 



*John Thorpe, deep blue. 

 *King of Delphiniums, deep blue. 

 'Monument, lavender 

 *Mr. Crompton Boberts, purple 



and violet. 

 Primrose, white. 

 Princess of Wales, white. 

 Those marked (*) are semi-double or double 



*The Bev. J. Stubbs, light blue. 

 Sara, sky blue. 

 * Tennyson, bright blue. 

 "Triumph, violet and plum. 

 True Blue, brilliant blue. 

 *Wonder, blue and lavender. 



cardinale, scarlet, 2 to 3 feet, 

 cashmirianum, blue, H feet. 



Species. 



formosum, sky blue, 2 feet, 

 grandiflorum, blue, 2 to 3 feet. 



nudicaule, scarlet, 15 to 20 ins. 

 Zalil, pale yellow, 2 to 3 feet. 



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The majority of the different original species of fuchsias are not included under the 

 heading Florists' Flowers, and they will be treated upon in that portion of Vol. III. 

 devoted to Conservatory plants. The florists' forms were obtained by hybridising 

 selected species, and the subsequent cross-fertilisation of resultant varieties, their 

 improvement constantly going on. Evidently the corymb flowering species had little 



