16 FLOWERS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS 



HIBISCUS or Marsh Mallows. 

 These are showy, hardy plants, forming bushes about 3 feet high, 

 bearing immense bowl-like flowers, 6 inches across. 

 Culture same as Honesty on page 15. 



INCARVILLEA DELAVAYI. 



Beautiful half-hardy perennial garden plant with long, flexible 

 branches. It forms large, fleshy roots the first year, which should 

 remain in the ground the next season, and thereafter they throw up 

 strong flower stalks 3 feet high, bearing large tubular flowers of 

 rosy-carmine, spotted yellow; throat, brown. 



Start same as Annual Hollyhocks in a temperature of 60 degrees. 



IMPATIENS HOLSTII HYBRIDS. Sultan Balsam. 



Handsome plants forming bushes 12 to 18 inches high. The 

 flowers, 1 3^ to IM inches across, are of scarlet, orange-red, pink and 

 white, with a red eye. The plants grow luxuriantly out-of-doors, 

 and if grown in pots they are equally effective. 



Sow in shallow boxes (2 inches deep) of light soil, in greenhouse, 

 hotbed or light window of dwelling house in a temperature averaging 

 65 deg. ; cover the seeds to a depth of only four times their size; press 

 down firmly with a board, and when two or three leaves have 

 formed transplant one inch apart into similar boxes. Water with 

 a fine spray, when small. Pot off as soon as large enough, and 

 re-pot as they grow, or they can be planted out in the open ground 

 for the summer, after all danger of frost is over. 



KENILWORTH IVY. 



Hardy little climber, clings to walls, etc., and a valuable trailing 

 plant for hanging baskets, vases, 3 to 6 feet. 

 Culture same as Honesty on page 15. 



KUDZU VINE. 



A twining vine of remarkably rapid growth, attaining a length of 

 40 to 50 feet in one season from established roots; hardy, though 

 the vine dies down every winter in the North. Foliage large and 

 lobed; purple, pea-shaped flowers in clusters, borne late in the 

 season. A fine vine for arbors. Culture same as preceding. 



LARKSPUR. 



Popular garden annuals. The spikes of splendid flowers are of 

 varied shades of red, blue, white, etc. They are of easy culture, 

 thriving in almost any soil — but a sunny situation suits them best. 



Culture same as Marigold on next page. 

 LANTANA. 



Rapid-growing, constant-blooming, tender perennial plants for 

 pot culture in the winter or garden decorations in the summer; 

 clusters of flowers, orange, white, pink, etc.; 2 to 3 feet. 



Culture same as Impatiens on this page. 



LAVATERA SPLENDENS. 



A beautiful, robust garden annual of easy culture and thriving 

 in almost any soil in a sunny location. The plants form branching, 

 compact bushes, 2 to 2 >^ feet in height, and bearing abundantly 

 throughout summer and fall large, shallow or bowl-formed flowers 

 of charmingly bright, rich rose-pink. 



Culture same as Marigold on next page. 



LATHYRUS LATIFOLIUS or Hardy Everlasting Pea. 



These ciknb 6 to 8 feet high when trained on a trellis; the flowers 

 are borne in large clusters. They are peculiarly adapted to rough 

 places, to scramble over rocks and bushes; splendid for cutting. 

 The flowers are without odor. ♦ 



Culture same as Matricaria on next page. 



