ACROLINIUM

 

ACROCLINIUM- EVERLASTING PLANT

 Common names 

Immortelle; Pink Daisy. 

The Acroclinium yields the palm only Helichrysum for general usefulnes/s In real beauty it heads the whole class of Everlastings. In a garden of plants the eye will single out the pink Acroclinium every time, even when surrounded by more pretentious flowers. A softer clearer shade of pink never existed than is exhibited by A roseum, the best type of this pretty Texas flower. The golden disk or "button" in the center of the flower is of soft, fuzzy pappus. contrasting charmingly with the pink ray petals of the Daisy like flower. Each bloom is over an inch across, the double sorts being somewhat larger than the single. There is a pure white variety. AN album also double forms of both the pink and white sorts. Seed saved from double flowers produces 75 per cent of plants true to name. The remainder will be of the ordinary single type, Each form has its admirers. Many succeed with this annual from out door sown seed, but it is surer to germinate if sown in pots or in a hot bed. Transplant later to open ground. Plants grow I foot high and bloom in midsummer.

References:

Mayflower 1904