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which need the foliage of other plants to make up for its 

 too scanty leafage. 



Pink and white Mallows are conspicuous in the late 

 summer and autumn garden. They are easily raised 

 from seed, and in deep, rich soil will grow in to fine spread- 

 ing clumps. The old sweet, white Day Lily (Funkia 

 subcordata) , with its beautiful, spreading, pale-green 

 foliage and gleaming lilylike blooms, should be found 

 shining in every August garden. It has long been a 

 favourite, and is one of the few flowers of this season 

 which is rich in association and tradition. It is not so 

 much used nowadays, save F. Sieboldiana, which is 

 valued for the metallic gleam of its great leaves, and 

 one sees F. lancifolia, in its variety ablo-marginata, or 

 variegata, frequently edging the borders in cottage 

 gardens. I am very fond of the Corfu Lily (F. sub- 

 cordata) and like to coddle it a bit, giving it the richest, 

 dampest soil at my command. In the Iris Bed, about 

 the little, ever-overflowing pool, it reaches a great state 

 of happy luxuriance, sending up countless spikes of sweet 

 white flowers, seeming to belong to a simpler age than 

 ours. The broad, lasting foliage of this plant and Sie- 

 boldiana is of great value in the garden from the time 

 of its rather late appearance in spring. In these days 

 when we do not plant haphazard any plant which strikes 

 our fancy in any spot which happens to be empty, 

 but consider, not only the effect of its colour upon its 

 neighbours, but the effect of its habit and form in the 



