Excerpt from Childs' 1917 Rare Flowers, Vegetables and FruitsPlants grow two to three feet high, the blooms starting early with a central globular head which often reaches the immense size of two feet in circumference. Scores of branches are thrown out, each bearing a ball of scar let wool. All these branches support numerous laterals with small heads of bloom mixed with fresh green foliage so that a plant looks like an immense bouquet splendidly arranged and set in the ground. None of the blooms fade in any way until hit by frost, but all continue to ex pand and glow with a deepening richness of color, a deep crimson-scarlet. Flowers when cut in a fresh state and carefully dried retain their shape and brilliant color and are useful for winter decorating, like everlastings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.