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handsome enough to gain recognition, is surmounted 

 in June with spikes of double daisy-like flowers of 

 creamy white. It is very fine for cut flowers, and for 

 forcing in winter. The clumps increase rapidly, and 

 should be divided and reset every three or four years. 

 Then there is the old-fashioned garden Spiraea, with 

 its pinky-white, feathery blossoms, very fragrant 

 especially when wet with the dew. 



Hypericum Moserianum is a delightful little per- 

 ennial, growing from one to two feet tall; the 

 flowers are exquisite in form and colour a clear, 

 golden yellow lasting well when cut. Other hardy 

 yellow flowers are the California Sunflower and 

 Rudbeckia, or Golden Glow, both too well known and 

 popular to need eulogy. 



The Lychnis (Rose Campion) is another of our 

 herbaceous perennials which has not attracted the 

 notice its good qualities deserve. L. Chalcedonica, 

 its trusses of scarlet rivalling the most vivid Geranium, 

 is the best known of the species, and combines beauti- 

 fully with Clematis flammula and Spiraea filipendula. 

 Planted against a wall covered with the Clematis, or 

 contrasted in the border with S. Japonica, it is very 

 effective. Plant L. semperflorens plenissima with 

 Deutzia gracilis and Spiraea filipendula. Planted 

 together in the border they are exquisite. L. semper- 

 florens is much more delicate than the other Lychnis, 

 and cannot be considered entirely hardy at the North. 

 It is a very dainty little flower with soft pink, finely 



