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tions are making some effort nowadays at harmonious 

 grouping, which is very helpful to the novice in forming 

 an opinion as to the relative merits of the various plants 

 to his particular uses. 



If such plants as Foxgloves, Delphiniums, Valerian 

 Canterbury Bells and Oriental Poppies, that die down or 

 must be cut to the ground after flowering, are planted in 

 front of some of the long-armed brethren, such as hardy 

 Asters or Gypsophila, the blank left by their depart- 

 ure will bloom again, for the long branches maybe drawn 

 over the vacant spaces. Plants with especially fine and 

 lasting foliage should be given due prominence. Of these 

 are the Flag Irises, Fraxinella, Funkias, Baptisias, Achillea 

 filipendulina (A. Eupatorium), Phloxes, Lemon Lilies, 

 Geums, Pseonies, Heleniums, Galega, Heucheras, Lyth- 

 rum Salicaria, Potentillas, Dicentras, Thalictrums, Ely- 

 mus, Santolina, Stachys lanata, Artemisia abrotanum, 

 Rue, and Nepeta Mussini. Such scantily clothed plants 

 as Lilies, Gladioli, Tuberoses, and Asphodels need the 

 foliage of other plants to screen their naked stalks, and 

 are always weak in effect if planted in large groups with- 

 out this borrowed greenery. 



In small beds and narrow borders, and indeed in any 

 save good-sized gardens, plants of great size and per- 

 vasive character such as Boltonias, many Helianthuses, 

 Polygonums, Bocconia, and Golden Glow, are best 

 omitted, and choice made among the more conservative, 

 of which there are a great number. 



