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good varieties are: Belladonna, turquoise blue; Chinense, gentian 

 blue; Formosum, deep blue with white center; Moerheimi, pure white. 

 There are many others with larger flowers. 



The annual Larkspurs bear spikes of handsome flowers and their 

 fine Colors are strikingly effective in the bed or shrubbery border. 

 They grow two to three feet high and in a sunny situation bloom all 

 Summer. Seed should be sown in the open ground in April. 



THE GERANIUMS 



An ideal plant for pots and bedding, the Geranium has always 

 been a great favorite in both house and garden, and well deserves its 

 commanding place among the most attractive and satisfactory of 

 old-fashioned flowers. In every section of the country it is popular 

 as a bedding plant and its magnificent trusses of single, semi-double or 

 double flowers, surmounting a wealth of bright green, healthy foliage, 

 furnish a decorative feature which never fails to gain the highest 

 admiration. It is of vigorous habit and a profuse and continuous 

 bloomer, the colors comprising a great number of shades and 

 combinations, with pure white, 

 rose, salmon pink, scarlet and 

 crimson predominating For 

 many years the Geranium has 

 periodically gained acquisi- 

 tions of wonderful novelties 

 from both European and Amer- 

 ican introducers, with the re- 

 sult that today it carries a 

 longer list of varieties than 

 most other plants in cultiva- 

 tion. Amoijg the interesting 

 and beautiful types are the 

 Cactus-flowering, the Ivy- 

 leaved, the scented-leaved and 

 those bearing variegated fo- 

 liage. 



Geraniums may be propa- 

 gated by sowing seeds in a hot- 

 bed, but for ordmary garden 

 purposes the method of raising 



plants from cuttings is gener- The Geranium well deserves its command- 

 n , rr^i 1 ... ing place among the most satisfactory of 



ally preferred. The best time old-fashioned flowers 



