THE RESERVE AND CUT-FLOWER GARDENS. 37 



such a division of the garden, the cultivation of many fine hardy 

 plants becomes a pleasure. When any plant gets tired of its bed, it 

 is easy to make the Carnation bed of past years the bulb one for 

 the next year, and so on. It would be easy to change one's 

 favourites from bed to bed, so that deep-rooting plants should follow 

 surface-rooting kinds, and thus the freshness of the garden would be 

 kept up. If any edging is used, it should be of natural stone sunk in 

 the earth, but the abolition of all edgings, beyond one or two main 

 lines, would tend to simplify the work. Such a plot is excellent for 

 giving cut flowers in quantity, and is also a great aid as a nursery, 

 while it would also be a help to exchanges with friends or neigh- 

 bours, in the generous way of all true gardeners. The space occupied 

 by it will depend upon the size and wants of the place ; but, wher- 

 ever the room can be spared, an eighth of an acre might be devoted 

 to the culture in simple beds of favourite flowers. 



Among the fair flowers which in this way may be cultivated, 

 each separately and well, are the old Clove Carnations white, 

 crimson, and scarlet, as well as many other kinds ; 

 What to grow tall Phloxes, so fair in country gardens in the 

 in the reserve autumn ; scarlet Lobelias, splendid in colour ; 

 garden. Pinks of many kinds; Persian and Turban Ran- 



unculus ; bright old garden Anemones, and the 

 finer species of Anemone ; Lilies, and as many as possible of the 

 splendid kinds introduced into our gardens within the past dozen 

 years from California and Japan; Delphiniums; double Rockets; 

 Irises, English, Spanish, Japanese, and German ; Pansies in great 

 variety ; Tiger Flowers ; the Columbine, including the lovely blue 

 Columbine of the Rocky Mountains ; Pyrethrums, Chinese Pinks, 

 Scabious, Sweet Williams; Stocks of many kinds; Wallflowers, 

 double and single ; the annual Phloxes ; China Asters, the Sweet 

 Sultan, in two or three forms ; showy Chrysanthemums ; Grasses 

 for cutting in winter ; Grape Hyacinths ; rare Narcissus ; Meadow 

 Saffrons ; Lilies of the Valley ; Crocuses, the autumnal as well as 

 the vernal kinds ; Dahlias, cactus and single ; Pseonies ; Primroses, 

 double and single ; Pentstemons ; Polyanthus ; Oxlips ; Tulips, 

 many early and late kinds ; sweet Violets ; American Cowslips ; 

 Gladioli ; Christmas Roses ; and, lastly, Everlasting Flowers, which 

 may be grown with the pretty Grasses, and, like them, be gathered 

 for the house in winter. 



In these special plots for hardy flowers are included the various 

 hardy florists' flowers. The term " florists' flowers " was once applied 

 to flowers supposed to be popular with amateurs and florists, but it had 

 never. any clear meaning. A Rose is a florist's flower ; but it is more 

 it is everybody's flower, and we call it a Rose, having no use for 



