Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . w depends on the many non-hardy plants, suchas Gladiolus, Canna, and Dahlia, on Tritomas of doubt-ful hardiness, and on half-hardy annuals — Zinnia,Helichrysum, Sunflower, and French and AfricanMarigold. Fine as are the newer forms of hybridGladiolus, the older strain of gandavensis hybrids arestill the best as border flowers. In the large flowerborder, tall, well-shaped spikes of a good pink onelook well shooting up through and between a wide-spreading patch of glaucous foliage of the smallerYuccas, Tritoma ca
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . w depends on the many non-hardy plants, suchas Gladiolus, Canna, and Dahlia, on Tritomas of doubt-ful hardiness, and on half-hardy annuals — Zinnia,Helichrysum, Sunflower, and French and AfricanMarigold. Fine as are the newer forms of hybridGladiolus, the older strain of gandavensis hybrids arestill the best as border flowers. In the large flowerborder, tall, well-shaped spikes of a good pink onelook well shooting up through and between a wide-spreading patch of glaucous foliage of the smallerYuccas, Tritoma caulescens, Iris pallida, and FunJciaSieholdi, while scarlet and salmon-coloured kinds areamong groups of Paeonies that flowered in June, whoseleaves are now taking a fine reddish these and the edge of the border is a strag-gling group some yards in length of the dark-foliaged i::-imM *_ir5* r.*^\ ? ?? ? -—-. SS^^^^^I^^^^^^^^Bv^9&&^0B^^^^~^~ ^j^~i?Siffefc3PPI^BBHifl^^^^^^S!S^^^8^^B 1 Solomons Seal in Spring, in the upper part of thk The Fern-walk in August. AUGUST 109 Heuchera Bichardsoni, tliat will hold its satin-surfacedleaves till the end of the year. Farther back in theborder is a group of the scarlet-flowered Dahlia FireKing, and behind these, Dahlias Lady Ardilaun andCochineal, of deeper scarlet colouring. The Dahliasare planted between groups of Oriental Poppy, thatflower in May and then die away till late in and left of the scarlet group are Tritomas,intergrouped with Dahlias of moderate height, thathave orange and flame-coloured flowers. This leadsto some masses of flowers of strong yellow colouring;the old perennial Sunflower, in its tall single form,and the best variety of the old double one of moderateheight, the useful S. Icetijbrus and the tall MissMellish, the giant form of Helianthiis rigidus. Rud-heclda Newmanni reflects the same strong colour inthe front part of the border, and all spaces are filledwith orange Zinn
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