Black Knight, Dainty, Miss Willmott, Celestial, Oriental, Autumn. 

 Dorothy Eckford, and Mrs Walter Wright, sown in five-foot Larkspur 

 lengths, has this year flowered on till the frosts, a really beautiful an( j 

 object for nearly three months. Michaelmas 



Another annual which will even survive a few quite sharp ^ . . 

 frosts, is perhaps the most effective introduction in this class 

 that exists Button's rosy-scarlet stock-flowered Larkspur. It 

 is impossible to praise this flower too warmly. Growing about 

 three feet high, with vigorous and yet graceful branching 

 habit, it blooms continuously all through the Autumn, and pro- 

 duces, if grown in masses with the plants some six inches apart, 

 an effect which for brilliancy and duration cannot be surpassed ; 

 while its long spikes of beautiful semi-double flowers last for 

 many days in water and travel well. 



Michaelmas Daisies, beloved of bees and butterflies, peren- 

 nial Sunflowers, the curse of the farmers of Western America, 

 and Chrysanthemums, the joy of high and low to these our 

 thoughts naturally turn in Autumn ; and they open a large 

 horizon. Endless are their varieties and invaluable their use, if 

 used with discretion ; for even these, or to speak more accurately 

 the first two, may be abused. In one garden I know, a fine 

 collection of Michaelmas Daisies carefully called Starworts by 

 their owner, but I am old-fashioned and love the old name 

 best have been crowded together in two huge borders on 

 either side of a path, with nothing to relieve them. The effect 

 is so utterly dismal as to get on one's nerves and make one 

 wish never to see the plant again. And I was only enabled to 

 tolerate the poor misused flowers by recalling a vision above 

 the Hudson River one October day long years ago, when the 

 feet of the Cadets, as they marched to chapel at West Point 



