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worked up by cutting the root stock into pieces about 

 three inches long, and placing them in sandy soil in a 

 cold frame in Autumn or Spring. The pieces of root are 

 inserted horizontally, not perpendicularly, about two 

 inches beneath the soil." There are many varieties of 

 this charming flower but none can compare (in my 

 opinion) to the old white, var. alba, and to Queen Charlotte, 

 which has no peer in the floral world for silvery pink per- 

 fection of colour, save in a La France Rose. The single 

 sorts are much lovelier than those with an increase of 

 petals which spoils the simplicity and hides the brush of 

 gold in the centre that is one of the chief charms. 



No more charming association for Japanese Anemones 

 in the white and pale pink varieties could be found than 

 bushes of metallic-leaved Rue, and others of the gray- 

 leaved brotherhood are nearly as good. The "bleak 

 blue" of Monkshood is fine with white Anemones, and 

 both Aconitum Wilsoni and the later Aconitum autumnale 

 may be used. Mr. Thomas speaks of the charm of 

 Lobelia cardinalis with white Anemones, but regrets the 

 lack of hardiness of the Lobelia, which must be taken up 

 and stored in the winter. This we do not understand, for 

 here, where the mercury falls many degrees below zero 

 every winter, the Cardinal Flower is the glory of our wet 

 meadows and stream margins, and has no covering save 

 that which nature provides. 



Chrysanthemum nipponicum is a Japanese plant 

 which all summer long has been valuable for its strong, 



