DAISY, DOUBLE

Bellis perennis fl. pl. Hardy perennial





The remarkable development of the Double Daisy in recent years has

raised this simple garden subject to the foremost rank of spring bedding

plants. So pronounced has been the improvement achieved in the size and

form of the flowers, that plants raised from a reliable strain of seed

will now produce blooms which may well be mistaken for specimens of

finely shaped Asters. When massed in a large bed the flowers present one

of the most striking sights to be seen anywhere in the spring garden.

But apart from their use in formal beds and borders, Double Daisies make

a pleasing break among Wallflowers, and are particularly attractive when

grown as an edging to bulbous flowers and other spring-blooming subjects

such as Polyanthus, Myosotis, &c. Plants from a sowing made in pans in

April and put out when large enough, may be flowered in the autumn of

the same year. But the method more generally practised is to sow on

prepared beds in the open during June or July, and to transfer the

seedlings when sufficiently developed to positions for blooming in the

following season.