November Autumn Work for Summer 



Lychnis viscaria splendens, Phlox in variety, notably 

 Mrs. Oliver and Paul Fliche, pink Gladioli, Japanese 

 Anemones, pink Chrysanthemums, Michaelmas Daisies 

 Perry's Favourite and Edna Mercia. Among annuals 

 there is plenty of choice in pink Sweet Peas e.g. Countess 

 Spencer, Princess Victoria, Mrs. Hardcastle Sykes, and 

 Hercules ; then there are, of course, Stocks, Asters, Snap- 

 dragons, Clarkia, Godetia, Rose Mallow, the lovely rose- 

 coloured Larkspur, Gypsophila elegans, Shirley and other 

 Poppies, and Statice Suworowi. 



May-flowering Tulips. Probably no group of garden 

 flowers proves so valuable to the gardener, or blooms 

 at such an opportune moment, as the May-flowering 

 Tulips. They have most of the attributes of a perfect 

 flower; they are tall and stately, on strong stems, their 

 colouring varies from bizarre to the most exquisite, and 

 they last comparatively long in beauty. There are 

 two chief groups of May -flowering Tulips, the Cottage 

 and Darwin varieties. The former are so called because 

 those from which the modern highly-developed sorts 

 have been evolved were grown years ago in English 

 cottage gardens, whence they were rescued from 

 obscurity by the florists -and made use of in the pro- 

 duction of the present race of flowers. For the original 

 Darwin Tulips we were indebted to a firm of Dutch bulb 

 growers. Both these groups come into blossom when 

 there is a blank in the succession of hardy flowers ; the last 

 of the Daffodils and other flowers of spring have faded, 

 and those of early summer have not yet made their dbut ; 

 the Lilies, Larkspurs and Lupins are still in bud when 

 the last of the May Tulips loses its petals. No garden 

 can dispense with them. Formerly the distinctive 

 characters of each group were well marked, but to 

 such an extent has cross-breeding been carried, that it 

 is not easy to classify some of the modern varieties. 

 The chief points of distinction are these : the blooms of 

 the Darwin Tulips are cup-shaped, rather shallow and 

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