SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR FALL OF 1902. 
I ALL ENGLISH DELPHINIUMS. —From Photograph. 
Tall English Delphiniums. 
I am tempted to ta_v that the Improved English Delphiniums are the most beautiful hardy plants in cultivation but 
I am also tempted to say tins of a score of other things, and, of course, it is impossible to say which is the most beautiful 
of hardy plants, for they have such an immense variety of beauty that the wonder grows that people continue to J 
. .... , . , . , e }y of beauty that the wonder grows that people continue to plant 
bedding plants by the million which have little or no beauty, are an annual expense, and cost quite as much as hardy plants 
whose lust cost is their only cost and which increase in size, in beauty, and often in quantity year after year These Del 
phinnims may not be the most beautiful hardy plants, but they are among the most beautiful, and nothing can be more 
distinct and satisfactory. 1 hey are stately and picturesque, some varieties growing eight feet high in rich soil- tliev have 
immense spikes of most beautiful flowers of every imaginable shade of blue, and their season is a long one - in fact they 
will bloom from sonnir till fall if nronerlv treated b ' 
capable horticulturists in this country to start a hardy-plant nursery and guaranteed the financial results . 
turn to make this nursery a model of its kind and grow everything in hardy plants worthy of culture and to« 
ing but well-grown plants packed in the most careful manner. The Delphiniums described on next page a 
offerings of this nursery (The Springdale Nursery). ^ 6 
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CULTURE OF DELPHINIUMS. 
The culture of Delphiniums is exceedingly simple, and the results out of all proportion to the slight amount of care 
necessary. I hey thrive in almost any position, and may be planted at any time of the year, provided that in summer the 
plants arc not too forward, and that they be well watered if the weather be dry. The soil may be a rich friable loam which 
suits them finely; but any soil, even hot and sandy, if well watered and manured, will give excellent results Dig deenlv— 
trenching is better-add plenty of well-rotted manure, and plant about 2 % feet apart. Placed in lines, as a background to 
a border, or m groups of, say, three plants at intervals, theeffect ofthe Delphinium is exceedingly fine They look well in 
beds also arranged at the same distance apart each way. They are grand grown in masses of large groups of separate colors 
and may be associated with shrubs with great advantage, succeeding by their robustness well in shrubberies A succession of 
flowers may be expected from spring to early autumn, especially if the spikes which have done flowering early be cut down 
