The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine by Various
page 28 of 322 (08%)
page 28 of 322 (08%)
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Epilobium (willow herb).
Hollyhock. Echinops (globe thistle). Anchusa Italica, Dropmore variety. Lupine. Tritoma (red-hot poker). Heuchera (coral-root). Yarrow. Lychnis (garden campion). Inula (Elecampane). Funkia (Plaintain lily). Eremurus. This list is representative because it includes some species, such as Eremurus, Trollius and Tritoma, that are not usually grown from seed by the amateur. To raise these rather expensive monsters from pennyworths of seed is a floral adventure which brings its own abundant reward. I should be very proud of a garden that consisted entirely of plants that I had raised from seed. It might be one that had never had anything else in or the seedlings might gradually oust the bulbs and corms and grown plants with which the garden began. There would be many things there intrinsically as well as extrinsically valuable. Carnation seed, for example, is constantly producing new varieties, and to grow rose seedlings is even to court fortune. It is a long time before you see your rose. The seed takes sometimes two years to |
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