52 A Little Maryland Garden 
coreopsis is of the purest yellow. There isa 
flatness of tint in the golden glow, perhaps 
a tinge of lemon, that is rather unpleasing. 
But to compensate for its want of purity of 
tone, it has great vigour. Not many plants 
_ turn themselves into such veritable fountains 
of bloom. 
The annual sunflowers were partly double, 
and partly single with dark brown centres, 
very decorative and extremely good for cut 
flowers. They grew to be about four feet 
high, and carried up the colour from the 
coreopsis to the golden glow. Then the 
African marigolds, old standbys of the autumn 
garden, are magnificent flowers. The deep 
orange of their flowers is set off by the dark 
richness of their green, deeply cut foliage. 
They must be staked, or the rain and wind 
will lay them flat, but they are splendid as 
long as theylast. Till frost cuts them down 
they furnish bowlfuls of flowers for the house, 
and their pungent odour is rather agreeable. 
Beyond the group of hollyhocks I set out 
some Campanula pyramidalis. They sent 
