HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
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You will find the larkspur in both annual 
and perennial sorts; all need rich, well 
cultivated soil 
The zinnia is an annual that is attractive 
only in its choice varieties; beware of 
magentas 
The Japanese plume poppy (Bocconia cor- 
data) makes an excellent screen for un¬ 
sightly utilities 
for each one hundred miles south or north of this. First, the 
perennials; 
Cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis ) is a plant giving one 
of the few pure red garden flowers. Native to some portions of 
New England, it can, however, be grown readily in nearly any 
soil. Shade about the roots and a slight winter protection is all 
it asks. The height is about three feet, and the dowers are borne 
in leafy racemes covering a foot of the stem. 
Coral bells (Heuchera sanguined ) is a lower-growing plant 
(1 ft.), with a low-spreading growth of leaves as a background 
for tbe long nodding panicles of coral-red dowers not unlike the 
begonia. It requires a rich, deep soil, full sun and plenty of water 
when in bloom. 
Lilies. There are several kinds of lilies that you may meet 
this month, and they are well worthy of your friendship: drst the 
common tiger lily (Liliurn tigrinum ), with its red, purple-spotted 
dowers; then the wonderful gold-banded lily of Japan (Lilium 
aura-turn), perhaps the most beautiful of all. bearing dowers that 
frequently measure eight inches across, the redexed petals spotted 
(Continued on page 68.) 
In the pale pink shades the pyrethrum 
(Chrysanthemum coccineum ) is a splendid 
perennial 
Nicotiana is a bushy annual in white and red Make the acquaintance of all the phlox 
varieties with a delicious fragrance at you can find, including this annual vari- 
night ety, P. Drummondi 
