. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. BLUE NEMOPHILA. Xt'liK'jifiiln his'fii iiifi. T would be a difficult task to find a more familiar "-avden flower than the blue nenio- phila; for it is one of the first favourites of the amateiir gardener, and never ceases— as some first favourites do— to retain a hold upon his af- fections, even when he has bloomed into the veteran hor- ticulturist. The beginner mav doat upon the clumps of lovely blue flowers that appear in the l:)orders where, for the first time in his life, he has sown some seeds; but if he goes on a
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. BLUE NEMOPHILA. Xt'liK'jifiiln his'fii iiifi. T would be a difficult task to find a more familiar "-avden flower than the blue nenio- phila; for it is one of the first favourites of the amateiir gardener, and never ceases— as some first favourites do— to retain a hold upon his af- fections, even when he has bloomed into the veteran hor- ticulturist. The beginner mav doat upon the clumps of lovely blue flowers that appear in the l:)orders where, for the first time in his life, he has sown some seeds; but if he goes on as he began, taking constant interest in flowers, he may chance to see tliis same plant in a shape that tells emphati- cally its popularity. On all the great flower-seed farms it is grown in astonishing quantities, and the growers amuse their visitors by measuring the lines to state the sum-total in parts of a mile. The last measurement we witnessed amounted to three-c|uarters of a Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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