122 The Flower Garden [Chapter 



scarlet and of the most wonderful shade of blue. It 

 is seldom seen, but should have a place in every gar- 

 den, as it is a colour rare among flowers, the nearest 

 approach to it being the Monkshood. It is a tender 

 perennial, but may be wintered in a warm, dry cellar, 

 dying down to the ground usually, but starting up 

 from the root in the spring. 



Sweet Alyssum and Golden Saxatile are both desir- 

 able for edging or for rockwork, and may either be 

 sown in the open ground where they are to remain, 

 or in a seed-bed and transplanted. 



Sweet-peas 



SO much has been written on this subject that the 

 culture of Sweet-peas might, without much ex- 

 aggeration, be called a cult. Though blooming with 

 its head in the sun, the Sweet-pea loves to plunge its 

 roots deep in the cool, moist earth, and the seed 

 should be planted as early in the spring as the ground 

 can be worked, or, better yet, in the fall. This late 

 fall planting has much to recommend it, as there is 

 more leisure and the work is apt to be better done 

 than in the hurried days of spring when everything 

 seems to call for immediate attention. 



The seed should be planted deep in two rows a foot 

 apart, running, if possible, north and south, that the 

 plants may receive the maximum amount of sunshine. 

 Placed in this way, they receive both morning and 



