rabicus growing only about two feet high, and the later purple October. 

 Grandtflorus are suitable for the front row: Multiftorus and Culture and 

 Flora white, Bouman and Amethystinus, purple and mauve, Staking 

 might form a second row : Robert Parker, Harper Crewe, and 

 two plants strongly resembling Michaelmas Daisies the tall 

 white Pyrethrum uliginosum and Baltonia asteroides^ with soft 

 grey-green leaves, would make a third taller row at the back. 



It is surprising what a delightful mass of colour an arrange- 

 ment like this will give, but it will look too stiff if not carefully 

 broken in some way with taller growing plants. A circle of 

 Rose arches cutting the long straight lines with their green 

 wreaths, and allowing a further vista of the lilac and purple 

 bank to be seen, completes the picture very well. 



The big Daisy-like Pyrethrum, already mentioned, is a 

 most robust grower, increasing almost too fast for the border, 

 but very useful for massing. In a friend's garden I have seen 

 a delightful cool green and white glade made with an unbroken 

 line of the white bushes one side of a grass path, and Nut trees 

 the other. 



To get the best results all the Michaelmas Daisies must be 

 divided about every second year or else the middle of the clump 

 gets exhausted. Many of the kinds need great care in staking ; 

 the simplest way to support them is on pea-sticks, which avoids 

 all risks of their being tied into unsightly bundles. If properly 

 staked the result is even better, but to get a well-shaped bush 

 this means using from ten to twenty light sticks for every plant. 



There are many rich-coloured plants intensifying the glory 

 of the trees, to form a contrast to these cool Autumn effects just 

 described, and many delicate harmonies which may be planned 

 between flowers and shrubs of soft warm tones. Most of the 



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