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plant I cannot do without as an edging most graceful of all in the 

 way it arranges itself, and also on dry walls, which it drapes as no 

 other Bindweed could. It lives through some winters, though in 

 others it perishes ; and so I have to keep some over in a cool-house. 

 A native of the mountains of N. Africa, where I had the pleasure of 

 seeing it in flower in a rocky waste. I generally in autumn take up 

 the plants that have formed an edging in summer, housing some and 

 planting others on a sunny ledge of a retaining wall, in the hope they 

 may live and flower thereon. It seeds freely. Used with good result 

 over a massive line of Crocus, it did not harm them in the least. 



The Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla). This beautiful plant 

 was, in the carpet-gardening craze, lost to gardens, as all the good 

 things that did not fall in with the false taste of the day were thrown 

 on the rubbish-heap. Some seedlings were planted in the cool loam 

 of the district, and gave a charming variety of colour. This, the 

 finest edging 1 ever had, was by a fruit garden walk, as in the flower 

 garden I seek things that grace the summer with their flower and 

 even last well into autumn. 



Tufted Pansies (hybrids of Viola). A host of these, of often 

 exquisite colours, makes lovely margins to flower-beds of Roses. 

 Easy of increase and culture in cool soils, and best in the cool 

 northern hill land, many fine kinds, like John Quarton and Lady 

 Knox, are well known. This should not prevent us raising seedlings, 

 as in that way we get vigorous plants to form edgings or carpets. In 

 that case choose seed of the smaller race rather than the showy 

 garish Pansy. 



Indian Cinquefoil (Potentilla dubia). In its large family there 

 must be plants of value for our purpose, but the one named above 

 is the only one that keeps with me as if it liked its task of forming 

 a neat edging studded with clear yellow flowers.. Of easy culture in 

 any soil, it never looks as if it wanted to go back to the Himalayas. 

 Some charming silvery-leaved Cinquefoils should make beautiful 

 margins, but so far they are not easy to increase. 



An alpine Toadflax (Linaria pallida). A modest, patient, and 

 delightful little creeper running in and out of the stone edging, always 

 increasing and always in flower bordering the Carnation bed or other 

 bed ; not a robust plant, but easy of increase, and grows as if it enjoyed 

 the garden. 



Pinks (Dianthus plumarius}. The welcome fragrance and grey 

 colour of these make them welcome as edgings, and they often give 

 us good effects. In my soil they are not so enduring as on calcareous 

 or free, sandy soil. The Maiden Pink (Dianthus deltoides) is a hardy 

 and bright-flowering plant used with some effect, but the season of 

 bloom is not long. In its vast family in northern and alpine lands 



