NEMESIA STRUMOSA
FOR SUMMER DISPLAY There is a greatly improved strain known as Nemesia strumosa with colours rich and rare. The new largellowering types which are now offered have a charm of their own. The extraordinary beauty of colouring, the qaint shapes of the flowers, and the free flowering habit all go to make it the most successful annual which has appeared for a generation. It is the most persistent bloomer and the individual flower spikes last for 10 or 12 weeks on the plants. They grow about a foot high and the flowers run through a wonderful variety of orange and terra-cotta shades, quite unlike anything else. They have dainty spots and markings up to the throat, and even the white and yellow ones are not quite like other white and yellow flowers. They do best if they get a little shade part of the day, but nevertheless they like a fair amount of sun. Bed the plants out six inches apart each way. Well-rotted stable manure dug into the bed will help to produce splendid growth. For rock garden work these plants are unexcelled.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 26 (Supplement)
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186NEMESIA STRUMOSA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 158, 24 September 1927, Page 26 (Supplement)
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