no THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



other kinds are plentiful they may be well used as broad groups 



in new plantations, among shrubs and low trees, and as to the 



choice double kinds, no plants better deserve a 



Paeony, Poppy, little garden or border to themselves, while the 



and Lupin. tree kinds make superb groups on the lawn and 



are safer from frost on high ground. The great 



scarlet Poppies are showy in spring, and best grown among trees 



and in the wild garden, and with them may be named the Welsh 



Poppy, a very effective plant in spring as well as summer, and often 



sowing itself in all sorts of places. The various garden forms of the 



opium Poppy and of the field Poppy, both double and single, are 



very showy where any space is given to annual flowers. 



The common perennial Lupin is a very showy, pretty plant 

 grown in a free way in groups and masses, and may sometimes be 

 naturalised, and, associated with Poppies and free-growing Columbines 

 in the wild garden, it is very effective. 



Primroses are a lovely host for the garden, especially the garden 

 varieties of the common Primrose, Cowslip, and Oxlip. Few things 

 deserve a better place, or are more worthy of 

 Primrose Tulip gd culture in visible groups and colonies or rich 

 Cowslip.'poly- ' garden borders. Apart from the lovely races of 

 anthus, and garden forms raised from the Primrose, the Cow- 

 Auricula. S iip 5 anc i the Oxlip, and also the Alpine Auriculas,, 

 double Primroses should not be forgotten, as in 

 all moist districts and in peaty and free soil they give such tender 

 and beautiful colour in groups, borders, or slightly shaded among 

 dwarf shrubs. Primroses and Polyanthus of native origin are well 

 backed up by the beautiful Indian Primrose (Primula rosea), which 

 thrives apace in cool soils in the north of England and in Scotland,, 

 and which, when grown in bold groups, is very good in effect, as 

 are the purplish Indian Primroses under like conditions. 



The large-leaved Indian Rockfoils (Saxifraga) are in many soils 



very easily grown, and they are showy spring flowers in bold 



groups, especially some of the improved varieties. 



Rockfoil, Although it is only in places where there is rocky 



Gentian, and ground or large rock gardens that one can get 



Alpine Phlox. t h e beauty of the smaller Mountain Rockfoils- 



(Saxifraga) we cannot omit to notice their beauty 



both the white, yellow, and crimson-flowered kind when seen im 



masses. The same may be said of Gentians ; beautiful as they 



are in the mountains, few gardens have positions where we can get 



their fine effect, always excepting the old Gentianella (G. acaulis),. 



which in old Scotch and English gardens used to make such handsome. 



broad edgings, and -which is easily grown in a cool soil, and gives,. 



