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crown. New shoots often break out from the old 
roots near the crown, but are seldom of any value. 
In congenial situations, the foxgloves will self sow, 
and if the winter is nnld, the plants will live over 
and bloom the following season, thus keeping up 
the group. The safest way, however, is to start 
your seed in May or June, and carry the plants 
over winter in a cold frame. Canterbury bells 
may be treated the same way. 
THE NEW RED SUNFLOWER 
I bought some seed this spring of a novelty 
called the new red sunflower. Not one seed 
sprouted. A neighbor had the same experience. 
Is it a fraud ?— R. O. M. 
No. The germinating power is not a fraud. 
What the flowers will be remains to be seen, but if 
they are like the representations in European 
publications they are worth considerable trouble 
to grow them. 
Quite often a hybrid will not produce any seed, 
as is the case with that most lovely Delphinium 
belladonna, and again when a hybrid does produce 
seed, it is often weak in vitality, and is best sown 
as soon as ripe. The red sunflower seed is un¬ 
doubtedly of this class, and being gathered last 
fall, has lost considerable strength since then. 
This novelty is a doubly crossed hybrid. The 
mother is a hybrid echinacea, one of the cone- 
flowers, crossed with the pollen of one of the com¬ 
mon sunflowers. 
Helianthus multi floras. I made one sowing in 
February in the greenhouse and out of fifty seeds 
obtained but one plant. I then made another 
trial, taking extra precautions and obtained 
twenty-two plants from the same number of seeds. 
I sowed in an ordinary wooden flat, covering the 
seeds lightly and then put over the soil a quarter 
of an inch of powdered charcoal, which in turn was 
covered an inch thick with sphagnum moss. 
Most perennials require a long time to germinate, 
and in the moist air of a warm greenhouse the soil 
becomes coated with a scum of fungoid growth 
detrimental to other plant life. I he charcoal 
prevented that and the sphagnum preserved and 
maintained an even degree of moisture. 
LILIES AND ORCHIDS 
A N interesting hook for the botanist, 
the enthusiastic layman or the 
student.* 
The family of lilies is one of the most 
interesting and one of the handsomest 
flower groups we possess,and the orchids 
are more nearly related to the lilies than 
to any other family. The author pre¬ 
sents in this volume what she character¬ 
izes as “ an informal sketch of these 
flower families growing in the United 
States, east of the Rocky Mountains and 
in Canada, together with a few stray 
relatives from the Pacific slope, illus¬ 
trated by faithful color studies of the 
more prominent examples.” 
*" Lilies and Orchids,” by Rosina C. Boardman. Robert 
Grier Cooke, Inc., Publishers, New York. 
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