in bottom heat ; by May they will be strong enough to plant September, 

 out, and make fine plants the same year. Amaryllis 



There are a good many half hardy plants which add Belladonna 

 greatly to the beauty of the garden this month. Amaryllis 

 Belladonna is one of the most charming the illustration was 

 painted from a group near a bush of lemon-scented Verbena. 

 The safest place for these lovely Lilies is a sunny border in 

 front of a greenhouse, but in many gardens the protection of a 

 south wall is enough. They like a soil made of good loam, leaf 

 mould and sand, and must not be allowed to get too dry in the 

 Summer. The leaves appear early in the Spring, disappear about 

 July, and all through September they push up their dark red 

 flower stalks and unfold their heads of fruit-scented white and 

 pale pink flowers, which get rosier with age. Zephyranthes 

 Candida growing alongside needs a warm corner too, and is a 

 good neighbour with its pretty white crocus-like flowers and 

 grassy green. 



The African Lily Agapanthus umbellatum is lovely all 

 through August and September it lives out of doors with us 

 under a south wall, but does not flower as well as those in tubs 

 which are kept in the Orangery through the Winter and carried 

 out of doors for the Summer. They are most effective used in 

 this way on a terrace or along a stone balustrade, as the foliage is 

 plentiful and of a rich dark green, showing up well the large 

 blue umbels of flower. A beautiful group may be made with 

 them and Plumbago, with its light graceful growth and paler 

 blue flowers, their pots sunk in a bed or in the turf. The 

 Plumbagos also spend the Winter in the Orangery, in June they 

 are planted out, and if it is a fine Summer give quantities of 

 flower through the Autumn. They combine well in the south 



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