ioo FLOWER GARDENING 



Among the latter are several of the loveliest wind- 

 flowers Anemone syhestris, A. bland a, A. St. 

 Engid and A. fulgens; the turban and Lebanon 

 ranunculus and Rehmannia angulata. These, as 

 well as the various hellebores known as Christmas 

 and Lent roses which, if they survive the winter 

 in the open, do not always bloom satisfactorily in 

 December, January and March may be grown 

 in pots sunk in ashes in a tight coldframe or kept 

 cool indoors until brought out to bloom. 



Some perennials hold strictly to species. Others 

 have a perplexing number of varieties, the peony, 

 Phlox paniculata, pyrethrum and larkspur running 

 up into hundreds, and the original type may be 

 lost altogether in cultivation. Where there is a 

 choice of varieties, seek out the best. There is 

 the greatest difference in the world, as to both 

 size and color of bloom, between the best of the 

 peonies, phloxes, pyrethrums and larkspurs and 

 those that are neither bad nor yet very good. And 

 of the best select not many kinds; a dozen plants 

 each of the lovely new double pale pink pyrethrum 

 Queen Mary and as many more of that admirable 

 double white, Carl Vogt, make a much finer show- 

 ing than a mixture of two each of twelve va- 

 rieties. 



So, too, a massing of the Festiva Maxima peony 

 or the old-fashioned red "piny" is better than the 

 same number of plants in varied assortment, while 

 Phlox paniculata loses half its effectiveness when 

 there is not a generous grouping of one kind. 



