. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . ts spreadingto three or four feet across, and bearing a dozen ormore huge flowers, highly coloured, and powerfullyscented. As with the tulips (and, indeed, all otherflowers), the best policy is to select a few stock varietiesof established merit and moderate cost. A few answer-ing to these requirements are—Frangois Ortigat, purple;Rose dAmour, flesh; the Sultan, maroon; CaptainLambton, white; James Kelway, carmine rose
. The perfect garden, how to keep it beautiful and fruitful, with practical hints on eonomical management and the culture of all the principal flowers, fruits, and vegetables; . ts spreadingto three or four feet across, and bearing a dozen ormore huge flowers, highly coloured, and powerfullyscented. As with the tulips (and, indeed, all otherflowers), the best policy is to select a few stock varietiesof established merit and moderate cost. A few answer-ing to these requirements are—Frangois Ortigat, purple;Rose dAmour, flesh; the Sultan, maroon; CaptainLambton, white; James Kelway, carmine rose; andLady Sarah Wilson, blush. The first three belong tothe herbaceous section, and the other three to thetree class. Perennial Larkspurs {Delphiniums).—The delphi-nium also links Spring with Summer. A noble andstately plant, its tall spikes of mainly blue flowers havea splendid effect when rising near some dark column,such as the upright of an arch, a pillar, or the sideof a gateway. The flowers blend with white Madonnalilies, which are nearly as cheap as crocuses, and maybe planted in September in a patch of rather poorsoil near the richer bed of the delphiniums. A. Delphinium True Blue, intkouuced by AIessks. Kelway & Sons, AND GROWN BY Mr. W. C. BlAKEVVAY. COLOUR FOR ALL SEASONS 8i climbing rose, such as the glorious Carmine Pillar,may be in bloom at the same time as the delphiniums,and a pillar of it in the rear will complete a pictureof rare and gracious loveliness. Belladonna, BleuCdeste, Dorothy Kelway, Persimmon, Salamander, andthe Queen compose a splendid sextet of perenniallarkspurs. Roses.—Roses are not generally introduced intothe mixed border, yet in addition to the pillars oneor two special varieties should be chosen for colourgroups. First and foremost for this purpose standsthe beautiful, scented, ever-flowering crimson Griissan Teplitz, a rose with a future as secure for gardendecoration as that of Crimson Rambler for heavily manured soil, an
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