This section is from the book "The Flower-Garden; Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers", by Joseph Breck. Also available from Amazon: The Flower-Garden: Or, Breck's Book Of Flowers.
Didiscus caerulea. - Sky-blue Didiscus. - This is an elegant annual. The plant is very much branched, producing its fine blue flowers in numerous umbels, or hemispherical heads, of the size and shape of a large quilled Aster. Two feet high; in July and August. Sow the seed in the open ground in May. Plants forwarded in a frame will begin to flower in June.
 
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