. Vick's garden and floral guide . SWEET ALYSSUM IN HANGING BASKET. the seeds about the last of August. If the plants come upthickly thin them out; a dozen plants, at most,are enough fora good sized basket. When out of bloom cut back and theywill produce another crop of flowers. Alyssum, Sweet, hardy annual; flowers smalland sweet; one foot 5 Benthami compactum, (Little Gem) a new dwarf, com-pact annual variety, not over six inches in length,bearing its pure white fragrant flowers in greatestprofusion during the entire summer 5 Carpet of Snow, pure white, only two to three in-ches high, a prof
. Vick's garden and floral guide . SWEET ALYSSUM IN HANGING BASKET. the seeds about the last of August. If the plants come upthickly thin them out; a dozen plants, at most,are enough fora good sized basket. When out of bloom cut back and theywill produce another crop of flowers. Alyssum, Sweet, hardy annual; flowers smalland sweet; one foot 5 Benthami compactum, (Little Gem) a new dwarf, com-pact annual variety, not over six inches in length,bearing its pure white fragrant flowers in greatestprofusion during the entire summer 5 Carpet of Snow, pure white, only two to three in-ches high, a profuse bloomer, showing as many as 300heads of snow-white flowers at one time on one plant, annual 10 Wierzbeckii, hardy perennial, yellow ; one foot 5 saxatile compactum, perennial, ten inches high, compact habit, golden yellow flowers. The popu-lar name is Gold Dust 5. 2Jfclcn. This plant is best known under the names of Columbine and Wild plant thrives well with ordinary garden culture, but is quite at home under thespray of a fountain or by the water side. By many it is thought this flower shouldbe adopted as the National flower, as it is found in nearly every State in the has the National colors, red, white and blue, part of the flower resembles theCap of Liberty, five parts of the flower to the points of star and Columbine withColumbus. The flowers are very peculiar and striking in form, and unlike any others ; eachflower has five spurs or nectaries, and in some species these spurs are developed toa great length. These spurs secrete honey, and the flowers are quite plants form large clumps from one to two feet in diameter, and produce a largenumber of flowers. Like a good many of our perennials, this flowers early in thespring. Seeds may be sown in the open ground. Plants can also be increased bydivision of
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