Tagetes

Tagetes - The French and African Marigolds have long been favourite garden flowers. There are also perennial kinds, but they are too tender for out of doors, though one or two, such as T. lucida and T. Parryi, are desirable. The annual kinds are from Mexico, and the best are:—

Dyssodia papposa (Vent.) A.S. Hitchc. - fetid marigold

Tagetes minuta L. - muster John Henry

African M. (Tagetes Erecta) - Known by its stiff, erect habit, and massive double yellow blooms. A peculiarity of it is that one-third of the seeds saved from the finest double flowers always produce single ones, while the rest are invariably double. The deep orange and pale yellow forms are pretty planted together. Sow seed under glass in April, for then, even without bottom-heat, they will start freely. When the young plants are 3 inches in height, dibble them out again either into a frame or under handlights to keep away slugs. When large flowers are desired the soil must be rich, and the buds thinned out.

French M. (Tagetes Patula) - A summer annual of varied color, striped, mottled, and colored with yellow, orange, chestnut, and other hues. Sometimes one plant has striped blooms, and at other times self-yellow or maroon flowers. Their unpleasant odour unfits them for cutting. There are now compact named forms of the French Marigold, not exceeding 9 inches in height, and free in their brilliant single or double flowers.

Tagetes Signata - Allied to the French Marigold, but has much smaller flowers, either double or single. As it needs a little starving to induce it to bloom freely in beds and masses, the soil must be rather poor. Like all other Marigolds, it stands drought well.

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