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maritima, in its variety Laucheana, is a gay little thing 

 with dense tufts of dark foliage studded with brilliant 

 pink blossoms. There is a white variety, and both were 

 largely used in the old days for "impaling" or edging the 

 quaint "knottes" which held within bounds the sweet 

 tangle of old-fashioned Roses, Lavender, and Rockets of 

 Elizabethan gardens. It is as good for this purpose now 

 as then, and may also be used in little groups along the 

 borders or between the stones. A. Cephalotes (syn. 

 latifolid) is a pretty little plant, too, but taller, sending 

 up its wiry stems a foot high and bearing its globes of 

 rosy bloom with a jaunty air. A. caespitosa is a charm- 

 ing alpine species which sends up tall stems from its 

 tuft of green bearing pink flower heads. It requires a 

 poor rather sandy soil and a sunny nook between two 

 stones. 



Foxgloves are widely known and grown and loved, 

 and the June garden would lack much without their 

 graceful spires. The creamy white ones are the pret- 

 tiest, and it is best in any case to buy the seeds in sep- 

 arate colours, for the magenta sorts are not suitable for 

 many associations. Here we grow them with bushes of 

 Southernwood and Rue, with gray Stachys lanata and 

 the gleaming Snow Queen Iris. The white ones are 

 never amiss and the tall spires of "beauty long drawn 

 out" rise from every part of the garden. Of course the 

 biennial character of these plants makes it necessary to 

 raise them every year from seed, but they usually seed 



