Some useful the Roses are out of bloom, and never overpower them. G. 

 Perennials Brenchleyensis, the scarlet one, does well out of doors with us, 

 and increases, but all the finer sorts have to be lifted before 

 severe frosts begin, and should be dried and stored in a cool 

 place through the Winter. If planted at intervals from March 

 to the end of May, a succession of flower will be got extending 

 to the late Autumn. 



While our own perennial borders are looking so starved 

 and poor, those on good deep soil are a blaze of colour, looking 

 better than the whole year through. At Godinton, near Ashford, 

 the whole effect of one border is white and yellow with Phloxes 

 and Helianthus^ annual and perennial, and the low starry 

 Rudbeckia with a dark eye. In a neighbouring border, to these 

 plants are added big clumps or the deep blue Globe Thistle, tall 

 Summer Daisies, Eryngium^ Sea Lavender, scarlet Phloxes, and 

 such annuals as Alonsoa, vivid salmon-pink and deep red Indian 

 Pinks, Nicotiana affims^ etc. The places for all these annuals 

 were well prepared in the early Spring, and plenty of spent 

 mushroom manure dug in, which probably accounts for their 

 vigour. In the kitchen garden the sweet-scented white Bouvardia, 

 which is delightful for picking, forms a regular hedge under a 

 line of greenhouses ; it must be kept under glass through the 

 Winter, cut back pretty hard in the Spring, then started in a 

 little warmth, and when danger of frost is over planted out of 

 doors. A lovely bed can be made with it and Plumbago in 

 any sheltered sunny spot. 



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