admitted, and well deserves Its place, namely, that fine white Daisy 

 Pyrethrum uliginosum, otherwise Chrysanthemum serotmum. There can be 

 no doubt that it is a daisy flower and that it blooms at Michaelmas; facts 

 that alone would give it a right to a place among the Michaelmas Daisies, 

 But it has all the more claim to its place among them in that it is the 

 handsomest of the large white Daisies, and, though there are white kinds 

 and varieties of the perennial Asters, not one of them can approach it for 

 size or pictorial effect. There is also the still taller Chrysanthemum leucan- 

 themum or Leucanthemum lacustre^ but this is a plant that has an element of 

 coarseness, and unless the spaces are large, and the Asters are thrown up 

 to an unusual size by a strong and rich soil, it looks heavy and out of 

 proportion. 



Towards the front of the main portions of the Aster borders are rather 

 bold, but quite informal edgings of grey-leaved plants such as white 

 Pink, Stachys and Lavender-cotton ; in places only a few inches wide, 

 as where the rich purple, gold-eyed Aster Amellus comes to within 

 a few inches of the path, in the white Pink's region, or again, where 

 the grey, bushy masses of Lavender-cotton run in a yard deep among the 

 Daisies. 



About fifteen sorts are used in this double border ; very early and very 

 late ones are excluded, so as to have a good display from the third week of 

 September for a month onward. They are mostly in rather large groups 

 of one kind together. 



There is a more than usual pleasure in such a Daisy garden, kept 

 apart and by itself; because the time of its best beauty is just the time 

 when the rest of the garden is looking tired and overworn — evidently 

 dying for the year. Some trees are already becoming bare of leaves ; the 

 tall sunflowers look bedraggled ; Dahlias have been pinched by frost and 

 battered by autumn gales, and it is impossible to keep up any pretence 

 of well-being in the borders of other hardy flowers. 



Then with the eye full of the warm colouring of dying vegetation 

 and the few remaining blooms of perennial Helianthus and half-hardy 

 marigolds of the fading borders, to pass through some screening 

 evergreens to the fresh, clean, lively colouring of the lilac, purple 

 and white Daisies, is like a sudden change from decrepit age to the 



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