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in the garden, unless it be the ethereal Gypsophila, so 

 sturdily defies the drought. Red and yellow is their 

 colour scheme and they exhibit many variations upon 

 it. There are many named varieties listed in foreign 

 catalogues which sound attractive. Gaillardias look best 

 planted in fair-sized colonies, and Baptisia tinctoria, 

 or the striped Grass, known as Gardener's Garters, is a 

 good background for them. 



"The Coreopsis like another sun 

 Risen at Noonday," 



is a conspicuous object in the mid-June garden. I be- 

 lieve it is the yellowest thing of the whole summer, but 

 it is a sharp colour and needs a softening haze of Gyp- 

 sophila to make it happy. Scarlet Lychnis is another 

 plant with a difficult colour to which the Gypsophila is 

 helpful. It is a strong-growing plant with good, lasting 

 foliage suited to the back of the border. 



A number of bright-coloured Lilies bloom in June. 

 The Herring Lilies, L. croceum, are particularly bold 

 and splendid in the neighbourhood of the Belladonna 

 Delphiniums; and those of the elegans type, red, apricot, 

 or yellow are pretty grown among the tufts of frail 

 white Heuchera toward the front of the borders. 



