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GROUP OF LARGE-FLOWERED AND FRINGED PETUNIAS. 
The large-flowered varieties of Petunia are often four inches in diameter. Seed sown in the spring will produce flowering 
plants in June. Set the plants about eighteen inches apart. They come pretty true from seed, but are not reliable in this respect, 
being inclined to sport. They do well sown in a coldframe, hotbed, or in the open ground. The seeds of the Double Petunia do not 
possess as much vitality as those of the single, and care must be used to get them to germinate ; nor will they all come double. 
Extra Large Flowering Mixed. 
PEAS, Everlasting 
(Lathyrus lati/olius). A hardy perennial climber producing for many weeks $ succession of blossoms 
in clusters of eight to ten each. Only a few flowers can be expected the second season, but in the third 
_ and fourth, the plants then being well established, an abundance of foliage and bloom is afforded. 
The plants die down late in the Fall and start again in the Spring. Sow seed in open ground. Mixed, White, Rose and Purple. 
The word Phlox signifies “a 
flame'’ and a good ribbon bed of 
Phlox is a dazzling sight, there 
is nothing that will make so grand a display for so little 
cost. In a good, rich soil, the plants will grow eighteen 
inches or more in height. The colors range from the 
purest white to the deepest blood purple or crimson. 
Seed may be sown in the open ground in May, or in 
hot-bed or cold frame earlier; and in either case, from 
June, during summer and autumn, the plants make a 
most brilliant show of flowers. Set the plants about one 
foot apart; if too thick they suffer from mildew. Our 
strain of Phlox is the best the world produces. 
DRUMMOND I. Best Mixed Varieties. 
PRIMROSE, Evening 
(CEnothera) . Produces large, showy blossoms which 
are fully expanded only toward and during evening. 
Blossoms yellow or white and very freely and constantly 
produced. 
Lamarckiana. Superb spikes of large, bright yellow 
blossoms three to four inches across. Hardy biennial but 
blooms the first year. Height four feet. 
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