SEPTEMBER 



" Spring, the young morn, and Summer, the strong noon, 

 Have dreamed and done and died for Autumn's sake." 



R. Le Gallienne. 



"Where are the songs of Spring? ay, where are they? 

 Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, 

 While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, 

 And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue." 



John Keats. 



Late T N September many late annuals are in perfection ; coming 

 Annuals at a time when the great burst of summer flowers is 



over, they form a valuable addition to the colour of the 

 garden. 



China Asters CaUlstephus are among those universally 

 grown for this purpose. I am not personally fond of the stiff low 

 kinds with flowers which imitate Chrysanthemums, but the single 

 one illustrated Aster sinensis is a much more graceful plant, 

 bearing Daisy-like flowers five inches across, mauve, pink or 

 white. We grow them round one of the Tea-Rose beds, the 

 cool mauve tones and the bronze autumn shoots of the Roses 

 making a pleasing scheme of colour which the purple and 

 lilac of the Clematises trained on chains above complete very 

 well. These Asters should be raised in a little heat and be 

 planted out early in June. They repay very much a share 

 of the manure water given to the Roses. 



The tall varieties of the annual Larkspurs to be had 

 in separate colours such as rose-scarlet, white or purple will 

 make effective clumps of colour three feet high in front of 



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