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REHMANNIA
(Named
for Joseph Rehmann, physician of Petrograd)
Rehmannias
are seldom seen in neither gardens nor even in catalogs
and yet they are lovely, long, bell-shaped flowers;
as lovely as almost any flower of the garden. Rehmannia
angulata is really a perennial but, not hardy enough
to survive northern winters, it is raised as an annual.
The flowers are rosy-purple, over 3 inches long, rather
lipped though bell-shaped, produced on long terminal
racemes, or else in the axils of the leaves. The flower
stems tower 3 feet above the foliage.
UTILIZE.
Good cut flowers, they are equally valued in the garden
for planting among low annuals, inasmuch as their flower
stems then give an unusual display.
GENERAL.
Seed should be sown as early as possible, because the
larger the plants, the more flower stems may be expected.
In greenhouses the seeds may be sown in February to
bloom in July and August; in hotbeds in March, or if
sown in May or June, young plants may be raised which
can be carried through the Winter in coldframes to start
blooming early the next Summer. All plants may be lifted
and stored in protected frames for the Winter, or if
a greenhouse is available they may be brought into bloom
in February and March. When troubled with white fly,
they should be fumigated.
It has
a suckering habit and sends up young plants which may
be potted for Winter storage.
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