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flowers are pure white. The species elegans may be 

 mentioned, not because it is a new plant, for it is a very 

 old one, but because it is often overlooked, and because 

 many people are unaware that if seed is sown in the 

 garden in spring large plants can be had in full bloom 

 in July. Thus, although it is, like paniculata, a perennial, 

 it can be grown as an annual, and raised in quantity at a 

 very low cost. It is slightly inferior to paniculata for 

 cut flower work, nevertheless it is quite good. While 

 writing of the Gypsophilas I may take the opportunity 

 of mentioning a variety of the old species prostrata 

 called rosea as a pretty, rapid-growing rock plant which 

 bears a profusion of pink flowers late in summer, when the 

 rockery is none too well furnished with bloom. 



HELLEBORES (CHRISTMAS and LENTEN ROSES). 

 Many people spoil these beautiful plants by frequent 

 shiftings. They never thrive so well as when they are 

 planted in good soil, in a somewhat shaded position, and 

 left to themselves. If they have to be moved it should 

 be done when they are making new roots in September, 

 not in the spring, when the bulk of herbaceous borders are 

 planted. George Barr, purple, and Purpureus superbus, 

 dark purple, may be mentioned as two of the best of the 

 newer dark varieties. The whites will, of course, remain 

 the most popular. 



HEMEROCALLIS (DAY LILY). The lover of these 

 graceful plants is doubtless familiar with aurantiaca and 

 its variety major, with disticha flore pleno, with flava 

 major, with fulva, and with Kwanso fl. pi. variegata 

 all handsome plants. Citrina is a rarer species, with pale 

 yellow flowers. Dr. Regel and Sir Michael Foster are 

 beautiful yellow hybrids. Three fine orange-coloured 

 hybrids are Gold Dust, Orangeman and Sovereign. 



