Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book (1920) (14763037532)

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Title: Garden guide; the amateur gardeners' handbook. Profusely illustrated with over 275 teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographs, all made expressly for this standard text book
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: De la Mare, Alpheus T
Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: New York, A. T. De La Mare
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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re is nothing more fairy-like than a bedof these grand single Poppies, with their long, slender stems surmountedby silken blooms of the most charming tints. As cut flowers in the housethey are most attractive and will last for several days if gathered beforeexpanding. There are many more splendid strains of annual Poppies,notably the double Peony-flowered, the fringed varieties and the daintyyellow-petaled California. The hardy perennial Oriental Poppy, with its gorgeous dark scarletflowers, blotched black at the base of each petal, makes a highly pleasingshow about the beginning of June. The stately Iceland Poppy (P.nudicaule), also a hardy perennial, with light green, fern-like foliage,bears a wealth of brilliant flowers on slim stems. These Poppies wiUbloom the first year from seeds. Seeds of annuals should be sown early in the Spring, scattered nottoo thickly and covered with a light sprinkling of soil. Thin out tofive or six inches apart. They do not bear transplanting. When sown
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Hardy PinksSplendidly adapted for bed and borders POPPIES 135 in the Spring Oriental Poppy plants die down in July and August,bui; reappear in the Fall, when they should be removed to their per-manent quarters. SALVIA A favorite annual for bed or border is the Flowering Sage (Salvia),which is remarkable for its sturdy, bushy growth and freedom of bloom;and keeps the garden bright with color from July until smitten by frost.The best of the Scarlet Sages are S. splendens and Bonfire. Seeds may \be started in flats or hotbeds and the seedlings transplanted when theweather becomes warm and settled. SNAPDRAGONS • Antirrhinum It IS very interesting to grow amusing looking flowers; the Snap-dragon is such, for each flower is a lions head; one must merely pressthe sides of the head and the mouth opens. Snapdragons are availablein such a variety of excellent colors—yellow, ornage, red, pink, deepmaroon, lavender and white—that they are adaptable for all situationsin the garden. There are