12 THE GARDEN 



GALLIARDIA OR BLANKET FLOWER 



This is a perennial, which gives striking flowers for the border, and for 

 cut-flower purposes. 



The leaves are a restful gray-green, and the blossoms are borne at the 

 end of a long, thin stem. These blossoms are somewhat remindful of a 

 large double daisy, two or three inches across; sometimes double, some- 

 times single, the colors range from yellow through all the browns, orange, 

 crimsons, purples, often with a shining, sheeny, metallic lustre. The flow- 

 ers continue until the frost has made himself quite at home. The flowers 

 are very welcome so late in the year. 



BOLTONIA 



The boltonias are true autumn flowers, like the asters and the salvias, 

 and the galliardias, and the chrysanthemums. 



The boltonias are also called the "false chamomiles," because of their 

 appearance being so familiar to that of the chamomile. Now, the chamo- 

 mile is the anthemis, the yellow variety of which is called the golden mar- 

 guerite. 



All the chamomiles are branching, downy-stemmed herbs, bearing 

 daisy-like white flowers with golden centres, exactly resembling small 

 daisies. 



So that, now, at last, we have reached a partial description of the new 

 boltonias. They are nothing more or less than very refined and genteel 

 chamomiles in colors, either white, or yellow, or soft pinkish lavender. The 

 blooms are very much larger than the flowers of the chamomile, however. 



These new flowers are being used for long borders, producing from 

 the middle of July until late in autumn countless strong, long-stemmed 

 flowers. In fact, wherever the plants are sown in numbers, there you may 

 be sure of a perfect sea of waving bloom. 



For cut flowers the blooms are excellent, lacking nothing save fra- 

 grance. 



Boltonia asteroides sends up great branching blooms five feet high, of 

 pure white snowy flowers. 



Boltonia latisquama produces the pinkish lavenders so much in de- 

 mand among the florists. And then there is a dwarf kind, boltonia nana, 

 also pink, and perfectly entrancing. 



These plants bloom away week after week, need no staking, and once 

 thoroughly established, require absolutely no attention. Indeed, in popular 

 favor, boltonias run the asters a close race in autumn popularity. 



Since we have mentioned the chamomiles so frequently in this talk, 

 we might add for the benefit of those who do not know the plant, that the 

 mayweed so common along our waysides, those small gray-green, dusty- 

 foliaged plants with yellow-centred, daisy-like blossoms, is the chamomile, 

 a valuable herb weed, that will not be put down and out. 



CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS 



THE CHIMNEY BELLFLOWERS. 



All the members of the bellflower family are Increasing lovely, but 

 some folk vow that a certain stiffness about these plants detracts from 

 their otherwise perfect loveliness. 



For long enough the chimney bellflower grew in the garden more or 

 less neglected, their possibilities little suspected. I think their loveliness 

 cannot be surpassed. One point only they lack. They are absolutely devoid 

 of any fragrance. But then, too, they are also devoid of any rank odor, 

 which is so often the case when a plant is not fragrant. 



