A That; Wm.
Last year I asked one of our greater florists to mark. the best blue annuals—with as view to a mixed bed of this colour. Like the Vicar of Wakefield one desires that great event "the migration from the blue bed to the brown,'' or vice versa. His reply emphasized the virtues of the following. First, Viscarias blue and white mired. Beds of this annual. whets seems to be not very widely spread, last year delighted ninny visitors to one of the agricultural shows. The others were Love-in-the-mist (Miss Jekyll) which perhaps is best sown in autumn ; Lobelia of the Cambridge blue variety, which can be treated as an annual ; Echium Plantagincum. in which very pure blues have been produced ; Cornflower in which again the latest productions are of a marvellously bright blue The annual lupin (Azure Blue), Phacelia, of which Mr. Sutton has written : " It is the outstanding best blue annual. It is a pure, deep, gentian blue, grows freely in any garden soil and flowers in six weeks front a spring sowing." Among dwarfs, of course, the old friend Nemophila has its peculiar charm. Them are many other blues known to all, such as the annual Anchusa Ageratum and Verbena (now gmwable from seed), and you can now get ii semi-blue Shirley poppy ; but I give those especially marked by a specialist for a particular gardener with a particular idea in his head.
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