. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. ANNUAL LUPINE. Lupines, Annual.—A useful race of garden flowers, brightening shrubbery borders, and creating pretty, graceful groups in the wild garden. There aiv blue, white, yellow, rose, and other shades, all clear and pleasing. Of named kinds, Hartwegi, blue and white, and its white form ; Hybridus atrucoccineum, scarlet tipped \ nW with white; Mutabilis, white, \ v' . m, \ and blue of various shades ; ^^Bf Yj the dwarf Nanus, blue, useful for bedding ; Nanus albo-coccineus, crimson and white ;
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. ANNUAL LUPINE. Lupines, Annual.—A useful race of garden flowers, brightening shrubbery borders, and creating pretty, graceful groups in the wild garden. There aiv blue, white, yellow, rose, and other shades, all clear and pleasing. Of named kinds, Hartwegi, blue and white, and its white form ; Hybridus atrucoccineum, scarlet tipped \ nW with white; Mutabilis, white, \ v' . m, \ and blue of various shades ; ^^Bf Yj the dwarf Nanus, blue, useful for bedding ; Nanus albo-coccineus, crimson and white ; and the rich blue Subcarnosus. They are all very easily raised from seed sown in April in any soil. It must be a poor garden that will not grow Lupines. The perennial species are described under the heading of "Hardy and Bulbous ; Marigolds. — There are three distinct groups, the > common, the French, and the African. The most familiar is the brilliant orange-yellow flower that seems happy anywhere. This is Calendula officinalis and its varieties, which are not made sufficient use of in gardens. They will grow freely in rough places, and beautify spots where few things will succeed. The flowers vary in colour and size. Orange King has immense flowers of handsome form and perfectly double, whilst there are soft, lemon-coloured kinds, known in various catalogues under distinctive names, as Lemon Queen, Prince of Orange, Meteor, and others. The Cape Marigold (C. pluvialis) is a charming flower of delicate white and purple colour, and is very pretty used near the margins of borders. The African Marigolds are tall, quite 3ft. high in good soils, and bear very large flowers like balls, in one case deep orange, in another soft lemon. When massed by themselves in beds, or clumps made of them in the border, they are very effective in autumn, when they attain full beaut}- ; do not crowd them. As they are rather tender, do not sow seed until May, when fear of fros
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