by the demise of the Poppies? I found that the most useful were 
Ageratum (dwarf blue); Zinnias (cream and flesh colored); Lady- 
slippers (salmon pink;) Asters (single violet) : Phlox Drummondi and 
Nasturtiums (buff and apricot shades). Yes! Dwarf Nasturtiums 
transplant perfectly even in August if you cut off every leaf and shade 
for 48 hours. They then burst out into a ball of bloom. 
To vary and prolong the period of blooming of your Phlox lift Phlox 
every other one in early April, putting a spadeful of compost in the 
bottom of the hole and reset at once firmly and deeply, watering 
thoroughly. This will retard their bloom ten days and they will be at 
their best just when you are removing the passee heads of the earlier 
Phloxes; if their heads are also removed, as soon as over, you will have 
a gorgeous display from July 25th till frost. Phlox do not "revert to 
magenta" if they are well fed and divided every three years. It is the 
young seedlings which come up around the parent plant which are apt 
to revert to type; therefore they should always be pulled out and 
placed in a reserve bed till they have proved their identity. The fol- 
lowing are excellent varieties. 
Phlox Elizabeth Campbell; salmon-pink (early). 
Phlox Antoine Mercier; mauve. 
Phlox Mme. Paul Dutrie; palest pink. 
Phlox William C. Egan; palest pink, very large. 
Phlox Eugene Danzanvilliers; mauve (late). 
Phlox Eanny Pleiderer; deep salmon. 
Phlox Wanadis; greyish mauve (late). 
Phlox Von Lassberg; white. 
Phlox Jeanne D'Arc; White, tall. 
The value of the low flowering perennial Delphinium Chinensis is Delphinium 
often overlooked. Year-old plants flower just as the tall hybrids are Chinensis 
over; and the seedlings which were started in the spring come just as 
the year-olds are fading and last well into September. This larkspur 
seeds so heartily that it is important to cut it down as soon as its bloom 
is past in order to preserve its strength. Treated thus it is a very 
hardy perennial. Sutton's Porcelain Blue is a rarely seen D. Chinensis 
of a pale Belladonna shade. Sutton's Queen of the Blues is an irri- 
descent cobalt of the purest tone. Vaughan's Chinensis Album is the 
best white we have found. 
This choice cobalt blue Salvia does so much better if it is dug up Salvia 
in the fall and the roots stored in sand in such a place as you would Pratensis 
store Dahlias. It then forms large sturdy plants flowering much earlier 
than those raised from seed or cuttings and with many more spikes of 
bloom. 
Remember the cursed Quarantine 3 7 and save seed of all your choicer Saving Seed 
plants. 
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