| For tall background plants we tried cleome Giant Pink | | | | original habitat of this annual was Mexico and Central |
| Queen, an improved hybrid in a better color than the | | | | America, where it is also known as Mexican sunflower. |
| old-fashioned spider-flower. Graceful salmon pink | | | | Most of the garden varieties are hybrids and |
| flowers with long spidery stamens continue to open at | | | | improvements on the species, with earlier bloom and a |
| the top of the 3. to 4-foot stalks. Beneath the blooms | | | | more reasonable height. |
| seed pods form on long slim stems. | | | | Richly colored and very easy to grow, tithonia |
| Easy to grow and exotic in effect, cleome can be | | | | frequently reseeds itself and comes up the following |
| used to advantage in spectacular arrangements. Helen | | | | year. Torch tithonia, a promising novelty and one of the |
| Campbell is a new pure white cleome introduced this | | | | All-America selections of the best annuals for 1951, is |
| year. Seed should be sown thinly outdoors when the | | | | certain to appeal because of its compact, bushy |
| soil has warmed up and seedlings thinned to stand 2 | | | | growth. It grows a little over 4 feet in height, with a |
| feet or more apart. | | | | spread of 2 feet. This novelty also blooms earlier than |
| The Golden Flower of the Incas is the romantic name | | | | the older types, with flowers of a fiery scarlet. |
| for Tithonia speciosa, a huge shrubby plant unlike any | | | | Why not grow at least one novelty annual in your |
| we had grown before. The name tithonia was given it | | | | garden this year? The suspense of waiting to see the |
| in honor of a mythological character, Tithonus. The | | | | results is half the fun. |