APRIL 33 



One of the best herbaceous plants for the wild 

 garden is the sweet-william. Mine were merely 

 thrust out into the grass three or four years ago, 

 and they hold their own and flower well there. 

 Perennial lupins are also promising handsomely, 

 with oriental poppies, single rockets, and the 

 herbaceous asters, while wallflowers and polyan- 

 thuses are a mass of colour, contrasting in their 

 sober tints with the gayer bulb colonies and with 

 the yellow doronicums which are in brilliant flower 

 now, and will last into June. 



Many seeds of perennials should be sown in 

 April. Wallflowers, for instance, never make 

 noble plants if one waits till summer to sow them. 

 Delphiniums, aquilegias, the type pentstemons, 

 evening primroses, especially the beautiful creep- 

 ing cenotkera taraxacifolia, campanulas, carnations 

 are all the better for early attention if they are to 

 make strong plants before the winter. 



Beds of wallflowers, common as they are with 

 us, can never look amiss if they are of the single 

 sort, and one of the best combinations I have is 

 of gold and primrose kinds planted each in a 

 fair - sized colony running into its neighbour's 

 ground. The blood-red one, which is also in- 

 dispensable, looks well with the salmon shade, 

 and these four colours are all that are needed in 

 the ordinary garden. But wallflowers judiciously 

 harmonised with bulbs bear off the palm for 

 arrangement. A bed of terra-cotta tulips planted 

 with blood-red wallflowers, and arranged in squares 

 of four three plants of the square being tulips and 

 the fourth a wallflower is inexpressibly attractive 



