Plant Proper Varieties of Flower Seeds and Have Blooms All Summer 29 
Sweet Peas 
Shasta Daisies 
Scarlet Runner Bean 
A very attractive climber with bright scarlet 
flowers. It is a rapid grower, attaining a height of 
10 to 15 feet in a season, and is densely covered with 
foliage, making it an excellent variety to plant where 
shade is desired. The bright red flowers, which are 
borne from July to September, are followed by edible 
beans of excellent quality, both when shelled and 
when dried. 
Snapdragon 
See Antirrhinum, page 24. 
Shasta Daisy 
A very popular florists’ flower but can very easily 
be grown in the home flower garden. It is a hardy 
perennial reaching a height of 2 to 2^ feet, and bears 
a profusion of extra-large white flowers having 
brilliant golden yellow centers. Sow seed where the 
plants are to flower and thin out to 8 to 10 inches 
apart. Blooms all season. 
Sweet Peas 
These lovely flowers are steadily growing in popu¬ 
larity, and each year sees great improvement in color, 
shape, and number of blooms to a stem. They require 
a deep, rich, moist soil, and if this is not obtainable, 
a trench 1 foot deep and 1 foot wide should be dug, 
removing all poor soil and replacing with rich soil 
from another location. It is claimed that the trench 
method produces the best results, even if the soil is 
rich. Sow the seed plentifully, about 2 inches deep, 
and, as the vines grow, fill up the trench with soil and 
thin to about 2 to 3 inches apart. Sow in spring, as 
early as ground can be prepared—St. Patrick’s Day 
is a popular date. 
FANCY MIXED. A mixture of named varieties 
in all colors, from dark maroon through all shades of 
red to pink and white, and from dark blue and 
urple to lighter blues and lavenders, also yellow and 
uff. 
SPENCER. These are sometimes called the 
“Orchid-flowering Sweet Peas.” They have very 
large flowers with waved or fluted petals. A great 
improvement on the old variety of Sweet Peas, with 
all their beautiful coloring. 
Stocks 
Few flowers have as many good characteristics to 
recommend them as have the Stocks. Their good 
habit, fine foliage, beautiful and fragrant flowers, 
long season of bloom, and adaptability to almost any 
location—all commend them to the flower-lover. 
The flowers come in many shades of red and pink, 
dark blue, light blue, white, violet, and yellow. If 
early flowers are desired, sow under glass in March or 
April and transplant when an inch high to pots or 
boxes, again transplanting in March, a foot apart, to 
beds in the open. For later flowers sow seed in the 
open in May. Height 1 to 13^ feet. 
Sunflower 
Too well known to need description here, the Sun¬ 
flower has an important place in background and 
screen planting. To the old common varieties have 
been added many new and attractive sorts having 
double blooms and silvery or variegated foliage. The 
blooms differ in color, some being red and yellow, 
and others varying shades of yellow. Height 3 to 5 
feet. 
Verbena 
These well-known annuals have long been popular 
because of their hardiness, profuse growth, and free- 
blooming qualities. A single plant, in rich soil, will 
often carpet a space 3 to 4 feet in diameter. They are 
particularly fine for window-boxes, borders, beds, 
mounds, and the like. Plants grown from seed are 
less expensive, produce more flowers, and are more 
vigorous than those grown from cuttings. For early 
spring bloom, sow in February under glass; for later 
flowers sow in March and April. Transplant to other 
boxes when about an inch high, setting out in May, 
10 to 15 inches apart each way. The blooms are pro¬ 
duced in profusion from early summer until frost, 
and vary in color from pure white to bright blue, 
scarlet, and yellow. 
Zinnia 
One of the most easily grown of all the hardy an¬ 
nuals, and few equal it in profusion and continuity of 
bloom. Seed sown early in spring will produce plants 
1 to 23 ^ feet in height, covered all season with large, 
double flowers in every color except blue. 
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