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charming colour scheme enables us to use them with 

 many flowers of their day. Most interesting are they 

 with the Aconites and blue Veronicas, with Tiger Lilies 

 or flame-coloured Phlox. With all the pink Phloxes 

 they are lovely, but with the delicate Mme. Paul Dutre 

 they produce a particularly charming harmony. 



Somewhat resembling the Sea Hollies are the Globe 

 Thistles (Echinops) of which E. Ritro, three feet, and 

 bannaticus, five feet, are good representatives. Both 

 have metallic blue, thistle-like flowers and glaucous 

 foliage. These may be used in the same colour combi- 

 nations as the Sea Hollies and are as useful. 



A beautiful and little used native plant of late July 

 is the Rose Loosestrife, Lythrum Salicaria var. rosea 

 superba. It is a tall plant, four feet in height, carrying 

 its leafy branches erectly and bearing at the top of each 

 a long spike of rose or, perhaps one should admit, 

 magenta flowers. But no one need hold aloof from what 

 they are pleased to call " that fighting colour," for it is so 

 frank and clean and splendid in this plant that it can 

 but win admiration and respect. Pale, ivory-coloured 

 Hollyhocks are charming in its neighbourhood, and 

 such buff -coloured Gladioli as Isaac Buchanan. White 

 Phlox and garnet Hollyhocks become it well, and a 

 daring but successful association for it is strong blue 

 Monkshood and blue-green Rue. It is not a plant 

 which requires frequent division, but it desires a deep, 

 retentive soil and a sunny situation. 



