Bleeding 
Hearts 
varieties of delphinium by making cuttings from the second growth, 
in mid- summer. I do not care for the second blooming in the border; 
it is spindling at best, in my locaHty, and apt to be overshadowed by 
its more vigorous neighbors, so I am quite wilhng to sacrifice it for 
the sturdy plants it will give me the following year. After the glorious 
bloom has faded, I watch closely for the second shoots to appear. When 
they are from four to six inches long, I turn a gentle stream of water 
from the hose on the base of the plant until the earth is well puddled, 
then slip my finger^ into the mud around the base of one shoot, and 
pull and twist until it breaks off. According to the age and vigor of 
the parent plant, I take off one, two, or three shoots, never more. 
The shoots will root easily and quickly, if planted in a seed-bed in the 
shade, and never allowed to get dry, and the plants will be larger and 
thriftier the following season than if raised from seed, and of course, 
true to variety. 
I don't think I should ever have the courage to deliberately dig 
up a great plant of Delphinium, and chop it into bits, but this year 
that is what I must do to my precious Bleeding-heart, for, alas, since 
the tragic Quarantine has taken effect. Bleeding-heart has all but 
vanished from the nurseries. I searched in vain last fall for even a few 
plants, and so far this spring, in vain. One of our biggest nurserymen 
told me to tell everyone to dig up at least one old plant this spring 
when the shoots are three to four inches long, and separate it into as 
many pieces as there are shoots, plant the pieces where they may 
remain undisturbed for two years, when one will have fine large plants 
with which to replenish ones own border, or to share with those poor 
unfortunates who have none. 
I like to think of that wonderful return from Chusam, when Robert 
Fortune brought with him the Bleeding-heart, the pink Weigelia, 
and the parent of the Pompon Chrysanthemums. What an acquisition 
to the flora of the Western World. 
Phlox 
Drummondi 
According to Vilmorin a few colors of Phlox Drummondi are 
absolutely fixed, so that if you can get seed from a reHable firm, you 
can be sure that the following will come true to color: — 
White Red striped with white 
Chamois pink Purple striped with white 
Magenta Variegated 
Pink with white eye 
I have found the lovely IsabelUna so nearly true that the few 
plants that bloom off-color can easily be pulled out of the planting 
and never be missed. All Annual Phlox is so much more lovely if 
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