452 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. creeping plants, flowering abundantly. Sow in hot-bed and transplant, six inches apart in the open air. RiciNUS. (Castor-oil Bean). — Plants of green and purple foliage, of tropical and striking effect. A centre-piece of ricinus, with plants of canna next, and a row of caladium plants outside, will form a bed truly tropical in effect. ScABiosA. (Mourning Bride). — Bright-colored, annuals, adapted for beds and for bouquets. The German dwarf varieties are double; sow in frame or in open border. Set the tall varieties fifteen inches apart, dwarf, a foot apart. HYBRID TEA ROSE— LA FRANCE. Stock Flowers. — Stock or gillitlower will never go out of favor, being abun- dantly flowering, with colors running through all the shades of crimson, lilac, rose, white, etc. Rich soil is requisite to keep Stocks double; they are planted in May or sown earlier in the hot-bed, and set out, twelve inches apart. The annual Virginia Stock is fine for edgings, but it does not transplant easily. Zinnia. (Youth and Old Age). — The varieties of this Mexican plant are magni- ficent in color. The flower is nearly as double as the dahlia, and lasts a long time. Sow the seed under glass in early spring, and transplant to the open ground, when dantrer of frost is over. GARDEN FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. 453 In this list we have included some plants that are biennial, but treated as annual plants as blooming the first year. The double daisy is also not an annual, but will bloom the first season if sown very early and twice transplanted before being set out. They are difficult to winter out of doors, although in Europe they are hardy as far north as Sweden. When there is plenty of snow, many tender plants and flowers may be safely wintered. CHARLES LEFBBVRE ROSE. IV. Biennial and Perennial Flowers. Acanthus; aconitum (monk's hood); adonis; alyssum ( distinct from sweet alys- sum, an annual); aquilegia (columbine); hollyhock, of which the double varieties are elegant and in great variety of color; iberis (candytuft); linum, or ornamental fiox; lobelia; lychnis (flame flower) ; myosotis (forget-me-not) ; Oenothera (evening primrose); perennial poppy; perennial pea; penstemon; perennial phlox; pinks, including picotees and sweet William; primula (primrose) ; pyrethrum; rudbeckia; salvia; veronica (speedwell); and violet (sweet violet). These varieties may be named among the HsefuJ ornamental plants which either flower the second season or are perennial, 454 TWENTIETH CENTURY HOME COOK BOOK. V. Summer Flo-wering Bulbs. Of bulbs, tubers and roots, which include many that must be kept over winter in dry sand to prevent freezing, we may note: aniaryllis (magnitieent lily-like plants); gladiolus (sword-lily), and all the hardy lilies proper; dahlias, caladium, dicentra (bleeding heart), Maderia vine, Japan spirea, tritoma, tuberose (must be started very early, planted out when the nights are warm and freely watered), tulips and hyaciaths. V COUNTESS OF SERENE EOSE. VI. Flowering Plants and Vines— Roses. Among the ornamental vines are adlumia (Alleghany vine) ; amjoelopsis quinque- folia (Virginia creeper) ; bignonia radicans (trumpet-vine) ; celastrus scandens (climb- ing bitter-sweet); clematis flammula (European sweet, Avhite); clematis vitalba (virgin's bower, white). And, among shrubby plants, the hardy roses, and all the flowerihor shrubs. o Moss Rose. — Among the most beautiful of plants are roses, and none are more so than those that are not strictly hardy. An especially charming rose, charmin"- even by comparison with its lovely sisters, is the moss rose. We illustrate, on pao-e GARDEN FLOWEKS AND SHKUBS. 455 507, one variety, the Crested Moss, at half the natural size. Its special merit is its loug fringe of luoss, giving the buds a most unirjue and beautiful effect.

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creeping plants, flowering abundantly. Sow in hot-bed and transplant, six inches apart in the open air. RiciNUS. (Castor-oil Bean). — Plants of green and purple foliage, of tropical and striking effect. A centre-piece of ricinus, with plants of canna next, and a row of caladium plants outside, will form a bed truly tropical in effect. ScABiosA. (Mourning Bride). — Bright-colored, annuals, adapted for beds and for bouquets. The German dwarf varieties are double; sow in frame or in open border. Set the tall varieties fifteen inches apart, dwarf, a foot apart. HYBRID TEA ROSE— LA FRANCE. Stock Flowers. — Stock or gillitlower will never go out of favor, being abundantly flowering, with colors running through all the shades of crimson, lilac, rose, white, etc. Rich soil is requisite to keep Stocks double; they are planted in May or sown earlier in the hot-bed, and set out, twelve inches apart. The annual Virginia Stock is fine for edgings, but it does not transplant easily. Zinnia. (Youth and Old Age). — The varieties of this Mexican plant are magnificent in color. The flower is nearly as double as the dahlia, and lasts a long time. Sow the seed under glass in early spring, and transplant to the open ground, when danger of frost is over. In this list we have included some plants that are biennial, but treated as annual plants as blooming the first year. The double daisy is also not an annual, but will bloom the first season if sown very early and twice transplanted before being set out. They are difficult to winter out of doors, although in Europe they are hardy as far north as Sweden. When there is plenty of snow, many tender plants and flowers may be safely wintered. CHARLES LEFBBVRE ROSE. IV. Biennial and Perennial Flowers. Acanthus; aconitum (monk's hood); adonis; alyssum ( distinct from sweet alyssum, an annual); aquilegia (columbine); hollyhock, of which the double varieties are elegant and in great variety of color; iberis (candytuft); linum, or ornamental fiox; lobelia; lychnis (flame flower) ; myosotis (forget-me-not) ; Oenothera (evening primrose); perennial poppy; perennial pea; penstemon; perennial phlox; pinks, including picotees and sweet William; primula (primrose) ; pyrethrum; rudbeckia; salvia; veronica (speedwell); and violet (sweet violet). These varieties may be named among the HsefuJ ornamental plants which either flower the second season or are perennial, V. Summer Flo-wering Bulbs. Of bulbs, tubers and roots, which include many that must be kept over winter in dry sand to prevent freezing, we may note: aniaryllis (magnitieent lily-like plants); gladiolus (sword-lily), and all the hardy lilies proper; dahlias, caladium, dicentra (bleeding heart), Maderia vine, Japan spirea, tritoma, tuberose (must be started very early, planted out when the nights are warm and freely watered), tulips and hyaciaths. COUNTESS OF SERENE EOSE. VI. Flowering Plants and Vines— Roses. Among the ornamental vines are adlumia (Alleghany vine) ; amjoelopsis quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) ; bignonia radicans (trumpet-vine) ; celastrus scandens (climbing bitter-sweet); clematis flammula (European sweet, Avhite); clematis vitalba (virgin's bower, white). And, among shrubby plants, the hardy roses, and all the flowerihor shrubs. o Moss Rose. — Among the most beautiful of plants are roses, and none are more so than those that are not strictly hardy. An especially charming rose, charmin"- even by comparison with its lovely sisters, is the moss rose. We illustrate, on pao-e 507, one variety, the Crested Moss, at half the natural size. Its special merit is its loug fringe of luoss, giving the buds a most unirjue and beautiful effect.

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