Identifier: cu31924002829525 (find matches)
Title: The garden week by week throughout the year; a practical handbook to gardening operations for every week in the year and to the culture of all important plants, with numerous coloured plates and half-tone engravings and one hundred practical illus
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Walter P. (Walter Page), 1864-1940
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE DAWN OF SPRING common in Hollyhocks, so that we can at once secure Marchsomething tall for the back. But almost more desirable I-I5still is the Sweet Pea. Countess Spencer is a brilliantpink, and the more freely the flowers are cut the longerthe plants will bloom. The Rose Mallow is a mediumheight plant that has the great merit of large flowersand continuous blooming ; these tend to compensatefor its rather straggly habit. The pink Canterbury Bellwill be splendid in early summer, and a sister biennialthat is somewhat dwarfer, but equally beautiful in colour,is the salmon-pink Sweet William. Pyrethrums andPaeonies give us some beautiful pink varieties, and bothare early bloomers ; but the Pyrethrums are perpetualwhen cut over after the first blooming. Two very fineannuals are available in dwarf pink Godetia and ClarkiaElegans, both of which last well. Silene Pendula Com-pacta is a good dwarf pink annual. The pink Snap-dragon is magnificent, and can be grown from seed likean annual.

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