Round the Year in the Garden 



towards evening and fill the garden with their fragrance. 

 From seeds sown during February and March an excellent 

 display may be ensured in late summer. The plants are 

 quite easy to grow, but should not be put out of doors 

 until May. One may now obtain varieties in many shades 

 of colour, and if they are not quite so fragrant as the 

 white kind they afford welcome change and add gaiety to 

 the display. Drummond's Phlox (Phlox Drummondi) may 

 be considered one of the indispensable half hardy annuals, 

 and a sowing during February will provide plants that 

 will blossom for weeks onwards from July. I tried this 

 plant one season among the Roses, but it was not a great 

 success, for the plants became tall and weakly owing to 

 lack of sufficient light, and, while not blooming very 

 freely, were rather a nuisance among the Rose shoots. 

 Those who wish to try something in place of the ubiquit- 

 ous Viola or Tufted Pansy as a ground covering for the 

 Rose beds might plant the dwarf bedding Lobelia ; it is a 

 brilliant little blue flower and remains in beauty for a 

 long time. Everyone will, of course, sow seed of the Sum- 

 mer Cypress (Kochia scoparia), or Burning Bush, as it is 

 sometimes called ; this is a most charming plant, closely 

 resembling a miniature tree ; it grows from 2 to 3 feet 

 high, is of symmetrical form, and the leaves are light 

 green until late summer, when they become autumn 

 tinted, brown, red, and bronze. Some gardeners sow the 

 seed out of doors where the plants are to grow, but I have 

 always had the best results from sowing in February in the 

 greenhouse and potting the little plants singly in small 

 pots for planting out in April. One of the most attractive 

 August flower-beds I remember to have seen consisted of 

 plants of the Kochia interplanted with orange-coloured 

 Montbretia. 



Pruning Roses in the Greenhouse. The chief prun- 

 ing of climbing Roses in the greenhouse ought to be 

 carried out in summer, when the display of bloom is over ; 

 some of the oldest shoots are then cut back to force the 



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