CLARKIAS
The Clarkia, sometimes known as the ' Chinese Fuschia, is a hardy annual j which can be grown successfully with ! very little trouble. When well grown j the plants flower profusely bearing fino ! long sprays of blooms with various j colours covering a range through white, i pink, rose, scarlet, salmon, and deep | purple and light violet. Clarkias are extremely showy in the garden, and very beautiful for cut blooms as the flowers last a long time in water, and are readily adapted to artistic decoration. The plants flower during the spring, summer and early autumn. The seedlings do not transplant readily, and it is advisable to raise th'o seed in boxes, pricking out the young seedlings when very small into other boxes of good loam, placing them in rows, say, 2£ inches apart, so that later on a square of earth can be cut out and each plant lif ted without any disturbance. The usual inethod is to sow the seed where the plants are to remain, thinning out the seedlings to from G to 8 inches, selecting the best and discarding the surplus.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 16
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