JUNE MAGIC 85 



borders; against the wall a great Gloire de Dijon Rose 

 presses its soft flushed cheek, and from every chink and 

 cranny of walls and steps and stone edgings, delicious 

 Pinks shake out their perfumed fringes. 



In a corner of the garden the great rounded bushes of 

 Baptisia australis are bristling with well-filled spikes of 

 clouded blue, pea-shaped flowers. This plant, which 

 grows four feet tall and as thick through, with the yellow 

 Baptisia tindoria, are splendid all-summer subjects, for 

 they retain their fine rounded form until cut down by 

 frost. The foliage of australis is somewhat metallic in 

 colour, while that of tinctoria is very pale green, both 

 valuable in various colour arrangements and blending 

 well with their own blossoms. The Baptisias are easily 

 raised from seed, but require several years to arrive at an 

 effective size. Frequent division is not desirable, and 

 they will grow as well in the deep, rich soil of the borders 

 as in damp places, though the latter is their choice. 



A grand burst of Pseonies usually celebrates the ar- 

 rival of June. The old crimson Pseony and the lovely 

 albiflora belong to May and are past, and the memory of 

 their simple sweetness is almost effaced by the wonders 

 of form and colour which follow in the train of June. 

 Some are so double as to be nearly as round as balls; 

 others, like great loose-petalled Water-lilies; still others 

 that are called "anemone-flowered," with a rounded 

 tuft of petals in the centre and a circle of flat florets, and 

 still others are quite single. And the colours range from 



