MY GARDEN 



thinke they were of some excellent vertue but, non 

 est semper fides habenda fronti." The foliage is 

 beautiful and shining, "much spread abroad and 

 cut into many flits and notches." The flowering of 

 Aconites covers a long period. The earliest here is a 

 clouded blue sort with shining foliage which came to me 

 as A. tauricum. It blooms in late June and July and 

 is not more than three feet high. This was the first 

 Aconite I grew, and, after reading the early herbalists, 

 my mind was rather filled with the evil reputation of the 

 plant so, when an army of little wicked-looking black 

 toadstools appeared over night about the beautiful 

 plant, it seemed most fitting like an evil spirit and his 

 minions. The Napellus varieties, the dark blue, pure 

 white, and most of all, the bicolour, are all lovely and 

 graceful plants growing about five feet tall and blooming 

 through mid-summer. A. Wilsoni and Spark's variety 

 are magnificent plants growing five or six feet high and 

 bearing their spikes of rich-coloured hooded flowers in 

 August and September. A. Fischeri is a clear blue sort 

 not more than two feet high, which bridges the time be- 

 tween Wilsoni and the October blooming A. autumnale. 

 There are two yellow-flowered sorts, lycoctonum and 

 pyrenaicum, two and four feet high respectively, which 

 bloom in August and September. 



The Aconites are impatient of a dry soil, so it should 

 be rich and retentive. A north border suits them very 

 well as they enjoy some shade, and they should be taken 



