THE KUDBECKIA. 



Rudbeckia hirta. 



ARDY herbaceous plants have 

 been rising in public favour dur- 

 ing the past ten years or so, but 

 they will never so entirely engross 

 the admiration of the English 

 amateur as certain over-zealous 

 advocates believe and desire. The 

 world is tolerably wise as to what 

 it wants, and it is useless for 

 specialists to go crazy because the 

 world will not implicitly follow 

 their lead. 



The truth is, the English gar- 

 den is a rafter of the English 

 household made up of good things 

 from all parts of the world, and the 

 pelargoniums of the Cape and the 



calceolarias of Peru are as worthy of a place in it as 

 the lilies of the Levant or the fuchsias of the Falklands. 

 People who enter upon gardening as a recreation are 

 usually eclectic in their tastes, and are very quick in dis- 

 tinguishing good things from bad ones, and those who 

 seek applause by crying up herbaceous weeds and crying 

 down bedding plants that make the garden grandly gay 



