plum-coloured foliage and vivid red flowers. A white easily- August, 

 grown annual that looks very well with these dwarf varieties is Tropcelium 

 Gypsophila elegans ; it is most valuable for picking to mix with speciosum 

 other flowers, being both light and graceful. The tall varieties 

 should be planted to cover bare trellises or palings ; cottages are 

 often gay with them, the low white ones of Somersetshire look- 

 ing particularly pretty clothed with flowers up to the thatch. 

 7. Lobbianum is a more uncommon but beautiful variety, very 

 easily raised from seed sown out of doors in April. 



The most beautiful of all Tropasolums is the perennial 

 speciosum, so often seen in Scotland. There it grows in the most 

 delightful way with wreaths of delicate green, and scarlet flowers, 

 and gives no trouble at all ; in the South it is not so easy to 

 cultivate successfully. Position seems much more important than 

 soil ; it needs a cool place with shade most of the day, and above 

 all some shrub or tree to climb into. Its delicate tendrils are much 

 happier twining round living branches and forming festoons of 

 burning red from bough to bough than trained up a wall on 

 strings. The sketch shows how well it can be made to grow over 

 Holly trees, finding its way even to the very tops. Near it should 

 be the wild Japanese Wichuriana Rose, which bears at the same 

 time its clusters of single flowers and many buds, or it would be 

 hard to imagine anything prettier than garlands of Clematis 

 Viticella alba and the Tropceolum meeting in the same tree. 



Our own .garden is not successful in the late Summer, the 

 ground gets parched and the plants have a starved look which 

 fills me with despair when I contrast them with others growing 

 on a good deep soil. Any suggestions for fine effects therefore, 

 through the greater part of this month, must be borrowed from 

 what I have been fortunate enough to see in the gardens of my 



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