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The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine by Various
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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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