PLATYCODON {Balloon Flower) (D) 
Grandiflorum— These plants, to be entirely eye filling must be 
given at least i8 inches every way, and allowed to remain where 
placed. Then you will avoid the straggly appearance, and gain a 
bushy plant with lovely foliage, and broad blue—first balloon, 
then bell-shaped flowers. They provide the best blue after the 
delphinium subsides. You can’t grow platycodon with wet feet 
or sodden soil. 
PYRETHRUM {Painted Daisy) (C) 
Finest Mixed —Described often as “showy”. We think not. The 
daisy like flower on its long slender stem is too airy, too frail to 
be showy. One of the very best for floribundity, if you shear the 
plant after blooming, and for cut flowers, they’re a delight. Must 
have generous feeding, and freedom from clay. Divide every 
three years. The proper time to transplant, is after the June 
flourish of bloom. 
SALVIA (B) 
Argentea —This particular Salvia came to us from England. It 
is reliably perennial with us. In its first year it discloses broad 
silvery prostrate foliage, excellent among the rocks. In its second, 
it throws a dazzling stalk of creamy white flowers more than two 
feet in height. Everyone who sees it, admires it. 
SAPONARIA {Soapwort) (C) 
Good rockery plant, succeeding in sandy loam. 
OcYMoiDES Splendens —Prostrate foliage, with flowers of rose 
color in quantities above the foliage in Spring. 
OcYMOiDEs Alba —Pure white flowers of the above. (C) 
SCABTOSA {Pin Cushion Flower) (C) 
Japonica —Biennial, producing the well known lavender blue, pin 
cushion blooms in quantities from June to August. 
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