SEPTEMBER 



Waning and Waking Flowers 



AT the coming of September the flowers of high 

 ./JL summer fade and fall, but there is recompense 

 in the opening of others Starwort or Michaelmas Daisy, 

 Meadow Saffron, Torch Lily or Kniphofia, Chrysanthe- 

 mum, Dahlia, Gladiolus, Monkshood, and autumn Rose. 

 They scarcely arouse such enthusiasm as the first frail 

 flowers of spring, or the fragrant blooms of dawning 

 summer, but they are most welcome and prolong the 

 charm of the garden until late autumn, when pressure 

 of work provides the gardener's pleasure. 



Among the Hardy Flowers 



Autumn Roses. Although many modern Roses do 

 not compare in form and fragrance with some of the 

 older ones, they compel admiration in autumn, when 

 they are almost as* gay as in high summer. So long as 

 they continue to grow, so also do they continue to 

 blossom ; as the gardener, by little attentions, is able 

 to assist growth, he too controls, to a considerable 

 degree, the length of their flowering season. Some of 

 the present-day Roses are scarcely ever out of bloom, 

 for no sooner has a shoot produced its first flowers than 

 it proceeds to form fresh growths, which in their turn 

 bear blossom, and the Rose beds continue gay. Yet 

 there are two well-defined periods of flowering, the first 

 in July, and the second early in September. The ad- 

 vantage of cutting back in July the shoots that had 

 flowered is now apparent, for the summer pruning has 



