. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 44 FAMILIAR GAltllEX FLOJI'EBS. A note on eampannlas in general may be useful. The best of them are hard}- IjorJer flowers^ that need no parti- cular care, and thrive well in any ordinary g'ood soil, but cannot endure to be star\'ed or over-much shaded. In planting a border, jireference in the first instance should be given to such sorts as C. /nfifn/td, C. 1 rarlii-Vnuii, C. ffloiiierula, C. iiobilix, C. jjersici/'dHa. For the rocker}-, the most important, to begin with, are C. rurpatli'ira, C. ijiirgdiiira, C. jjuiiiiln,
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. 44 FAMILIAR GAltllEX FLOJI'EBS. A note on eampannlas in general may be useful. The best of them are hard}- IjorJer flowers^ that need no parti- cular care, and thrive well in any ordinary g'ood soil, but cannot endure to be star\'ed or over-much shaded. In planting a border, jireference in the first instance should be given to such sorts as C. /nfifn/td, C. 1 rarlii-Vnuii, C. ffloiiierula, C. iiobilix, C. jjersici/'dHa. For the rocker}-, the most important, to begin with, are C. rurpatli'ira, C. ijiirgdiiira, C. jjuiiiiln, and C. rotiiudijuliii. The last-named is the "harebell" of the hedgerow and the roadside and the woodland ^^-aste, which -si-e ha^-e met with near Havfield, in Derbyshire, in many shades of blue, white, and pink, but the plants and seeds we saved of the curious varieties lost their distinguishing characters when removed, so that when planted out on raised banks of sandy soil iu the garden they all produced blue 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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