. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ring bloom. Variouscolors. Plant and treat the bulbs the same as advisedfor daffodils, but set them an inch deeper. Jacobs Ladder: Handsome foliage and spikes ofblue flowers. June-July. Grows about a foot high. Larkspur: Great spikes of bloom (variouscolors) produced continuously from June until latesummer. The tall kinds attain a height of five feetor more; dwarf varieties about two feet. Lily: I could write a chapter about these, but,alas! space forbids. Among the many excellentvarieties I can mentionthe foll
. Biggle garden book; vegetables, small fruits and flowers for pleasure and profit. ring bloom. Variouscolors. Plant and treat the bulbs the same as advisedfor daffodils, but set them an inch deeper. Jacobs Ladder: Handsome foliage and spikes ofblue flowers. June-July. Grows about a foot high. Larkspur: Great spikes of bloom (variouscolors) produced continuously from June until latesummer. The tall kinds attain a height of five feetor more; dwarf varieties about two feet. Lily: I could write a chapter about these, but,alas! space forbids. Among the many excellentvarieties I can mentionthe following: Liliumcandidum—white, bloomsin June, often grows sixfeet high, sometimescalled annunciation lily;lilium auratum, about threefeet high, blooms July-August, also called gold-banded lily of Japan;lilium longiflorum, or . ° . LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY—A GREAT trumpet lily, white, two favorite of Harriets and one-half feet high, June; lilium tigrinum splendens, or tiger lily,spotted orange color, four feet high, August; lily-of-the-valley is last but not least—a home is incom-. 154 BIGGLE GARDEN BOOK plete without a clump of these lowly little beau-ties. Plant lily bulbs in early October the same asadvised for crocus and other hardy bulbs, but besure to spade up the soil deeply; cover about sixinches deep, space about fifteen inches apart, andapply a winter mulch. Lily-of-the-valley pips neednot be covered deeper than about three and transplant lilies every three or four years. Monks-hood: Likes a shady place. BloomsAugust-September. The old variety has a blue flowerand grows to a height of about three feet. Myrtle: A well-known evergreen trailing plantwith blue flowers in spring. Does well almost any-where and spreads rapidly. Pseony: There are two distinct types—the ordi-nary herbaceous paeony and the tree pseony. Bothtypes come in a variety of colors—pink, v/hite, red,etc.,—and the blooming time may be greatly extendedby getting early and late kinds. Se
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