PERENNIAL LUPINS.
Perennial lupins come so readily from seeds, that one can easily keep up to date with them. They are noble garden plants, and when well grown are among the handsomest and most stately.
Hybridists are continually at work upon them, and every year there are new and richer colours to delight us, blue in every shade, rich, deep purple, clear pink, deep rose red, and rich apricot being some of them. Perennial lupins are wonderfully hardy, and are able to adapt themselves to any soil. They grow to a perfection in a rich silty one, and also in a well dug heavy one. Indeed, the plants do so well in heavy soil that they have earned the gratitude of many amateur gardeners . If seeds are sown during November the seedlings will often send up a spike of flower in the autumn, and this gives one a chance to seeing the colours before the plants are moved into permanent quarters.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18459, 28 December 1929, Page 12
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161PERENNIAL LUPINS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18459, 28 December 1929, Page 12
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