DAISY, DOUBLE
Bellis perennis fl. pl. Hardy perennial
The remarkable development of the Double Daisy in recent years has
raised this simple garden subject to the foremost rank of spring bedding
plants. So pronounced has been the improvement achieved in the size and
form of the
flowers, that plants raised from a reliable strain of seed
will now produce blooms which may well be mistaken for specimens of
finely shaped Asters. When massed in a large bed the flowers present one
of the most striking sights to be seen anywhere in the spring garden.
But apart from their use in formal beds and borders, Double Daisies make
a pleasing break among Wallflowers, and are particularly attractive when
grown as an edging to bulbous flowers and other spring-blooming subjects
such as Polyanthus, Myosotis, &c. Plants from a sowing made in pans in
April and put out when large enough, may be flowered in the autumn of
the same year. But the method more generally practised is to sow on
prepared beds in the open during June or July, and to transfer the
seedlings when sufficiently developed to positions for blooming in the
following season.
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