This section is from the "American Horticultural Manual Vol1" book, by J. L. Budd. Also available from Amazon American Horticultural Manual, Part One (1902).
This beautiful little flowering plant will ever be popular and pleasing. In all parts of our country, with its bright summer sun, it loves the shade. A bed of it where it only gets the morning and evening sun will soon extend its borders. It needs occasional thinning and a dressing of fine manure each fall.
 
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