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up and divided about every three years. I am very 

 fond of a group of A. Napellus var. bicolour and Tiger 

 Lilies which fills the angle made by the high wall and 

 the garden house. The clean blue and white of these 

 Aconites accompanies well the strange tawny hue worn 

 by the Tiger Lilies and, lower down, a fine group of pure 

 orange Bateman's Lily, growing behind the spreading 

 light-green foliage of Funkia subcordata, completes a 

 good north border group. They are also fine with the 

 Phloxes pink and white and scarlet. 



One would not willingly do without the beautiful 

 Monkshoods, so valuable are they in the summer and 

 autumn gardens; but, in all our dealings with this 

 "venomous and naughty herb," it is well to remember 

 the terse warning of Dodoens that it is "very hurtful to 

 man's nature and killeth out of hand." 



Eryngiums, or Sea Hollies, are plants of great interest 

 and beauty, their silvery stems and foliage and deep- 

 blue globular flower heads creating an unusually lovely 

 effect. They are easily raised from seed and seem to 

 take kindly to any soil in a sunny situation. E. mariti- 

 mum, the true Sea Holly, is a low-growing plant for the 

 front of the border with large glaucous foliage. E. 

 alpinum and Oliverianum, two and one-half and three 

 feet in height, with rich blue flower heads, are the best, I 

 think, though planum, bearing an immense quantity of 

 small blue flowers and amethystinum, more gray than 

 blue, are both extremely good. Their subdued and 



