THE AUTUMN GARDEN 231 



Michaelmas Daisy, it is the perfection of a 

 decorative flower for tall vases. 



Among the newer developments of peren- 

 nials, few are more striking than the work of 

 the hybridizer in Pentstemons and Lobelia Car- 

 dinalis. The varieties of colour in both are as 

 surprising as they are beautiful. And although 

 I never hope to see in England the intense 

 cerulean blue of P. Jaffrayanus and Erandegei 

 as they grow on the dry plains at the foot of 

 Pike's Peak for here they get too much 

 moisture and too little sun yet hybrid Pent- 

 stemons sown in heat in February and flowering 

 the same year are by no means to be despised. 

 A long row of them in the Garden of Delight 

 last year displayed every conceivable shade of 

 pale pink, rose, crimson, mauve and strange 

 lurid purple. The hybrids of Lobelia Cardinalis 

 were even more striking, planted in separate 

 groups beside the grass paths in the Water 

 Garden, as may be seen in Mr. Townshend's 

 photograph of Hydrangea paniculata. Many 

 of these beautiful varieties are raised from seed 

 saved on the spot, besides other named sorts. 



