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LOBELIA, Bedding Varieties. 

 This charming class forms compact bushes about 6 inches high 

 and are fairly sheeted vdth bloom throughout the season. Highly 

 desirable for edgings, ribbon bedding and garden decoration, as 

 well as for pot culture. They flower the first season from seed. 

 Culture same as Matricaria on this page. 



Hardy Lobelias. Tall-growing, perennials, with long spikes of 

 brilliant flowers; for permanent beds and borders they are un- 

 rivaled; they are one of the few flowering plants that thrive in 

 shady situations; 2 to 4 feet. Culture same as Hardy Matricaria 

 on this page. 



LUPINUS, Annual Varieties. 

 These popular and easily grown garden annuals attain a height of 

 about 2 feet. They are of robust .branching habit, and throw out 

 spikes covered with pea-shaped flowers for most of their length. 

 Culture same as Marigold on this page. 



Lupinus, New Hardy Hybrids. Showy, hardy perennials* 

 growing 3 to 4 feet in height and producing during summer long 

 racemes of Pea-like flowers in a great variety of colors. 

 Culture same as Matricaria on this page. 



LYCHNIS. 

 The scarlet Lychnis, an old garden favorite.bearing heads of 

 bright scarlet flowers, very hardy ; 3 to 4 feet. 

 Culture same as Matricaria on this page. 



MATRICARIA SNOWBALL. 

 This splendid variety of "Double White Feverfew" forms bushy 

 annual garden plants, bearing quantities of pure snow-white double 

 flowers in dense clusters; height 8 inches. 



Sow in light soil, in shallow boxes (2 inches deep), placed in hot- 

 bed, greenhouse or window, in a temperature averaging 60 to 70 

 deg. ; cover the seeds to not over four times their size, press down 

 with a board firmly, water with a fine spray, and do not allow the 

 small seedlings to dry out. Transplant 1 inch apart into similar 

 boxes when they have formed 2 or 3 leaves, and plant out in the 

 open garden after danger from frost, or pot in 2-inch pots and plant 

 out from these, or shift into larger pots as the pot fQls with roots. 

 providing large plants in pots are desired. 



GIANT-FLOWERING MAURANDIAS. 

 A well-known climber, the plants attaining aheight of 6 to 10 feet, 

 which quickly hide trellis from view and are thickly studded with 

 flowers. The plants from seed sown in spring will begin flowering 

 by July and continue until frost. Colors, white, rose and purple. 

 Culture same as Matricaria on this page. 



MARIGOLD. 

 Marigolds produce densely double flowers of the regularity and 

 perfection of a Dahlia. For effective garden display during the 

 summer and autumn months nothing can surpass the gorgeous 

 masses of color of these grand varieties. ^ "African," "French," 

 and "Tom Thumb" are the principal vaxieties. 



Sow out of doors when danger from frost is over. The soil should 

 be well pulverized, the seed covered to a depth of about four times 

 its size with light soil ; press down firmly with a board and thin out 

 so that the plants are not crowded. They can also be sown in 

 shallow boxes (2 inches deep) in the greenhouse, hotbed, or in light 

 window of dwelling house, if desired early; transplant into simUar 

 boxes when two or three leaves have formed, and plant out in the 

 open ground after danger is over from frost. 

 MOMORDICA. 

 (Balsam Apple.) Annual climber, 15 feet; bearing ornamental 

 orange-colored fruits with red interiors. 

 Culture same as Marigold on this page. 



