A Little Maryland Garden 155 
I once had in the garden some plants 
of the orgyalis variety of sunflower, the tall 
and slender, small-flowered sunflower of 
the prairies, but they were winter-killed, 
owing no doubt to the low, wet soil. As 
they need staking I have never renewed 
them, as I have a prejudice in favour of 
flowers with a strong backbone. As to the 
great dish-faced sunflower, with a disk like 
a soup-plate, it is altogether too heavy and 
coarse for a small place. It needs a long 
perspective, and is decidedly a flower for the 
middle distance. 
The sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis) 
has bloomed steadily from earliest spring, 
and though the flower is nothing fine, the 
cloudy violet mass it makes gives a touch of 
complementary colour to the yellow border 
that is very good. Near it the gaillardias lift 
their large, red-gold disks. They have re- 
served their bloom till late this season. 
Farther down the line the Chabaud carna- 
tions have lovely flowers, deep red, pink, 
and white, large and fragrant as florists’ 
