PLANTING THE FLOWEK BEDS 15 



anthus, Hollyhocks, Michaelmas Daisy, etc., in 

 great variety. 



In planting beds and borders your aim will of 

 course be to have those beds bright and gay for as 

 long a season as possible, so I will give you a short 

 list of those plants which seem to me most indis- 

 pensable, in the order in which they flower, details 

 of which plants you will find in a future chapter. 



Crocus, Daffodils, Primroses and Polyanthus, 

 Scillas, S. Brigid Anemones, Tulips, Myosotis, 

 Silene pendula, Arabis fl. pi., Aubretia, Geums, 

 Wallflowers, Pansies, Iris, Poppies, both Alpine 

 and Iceland, and the glorious Oriental Poppies, 

 Paeonies, Pinks, Lupin, Spiraea, Canterbury Bells, 

 Aquilegias, Pyrethrum, Delphinium, Antirrhinum, 

 Sweet William, Campanula persicifolia, C. grandis, 

 C. carpatica, and C. Pyramidalis, Scarlet Lychnis, 

 (Enothera, Gladiolas, Gypsophila, Phlox of all 

 colours, Salvias, Montbretia, Helianthus, Japanese 

 Anemones, early Chrysanthemums, and Michael- 

 mas Daisies in abundance. 



With a groundwork of these flowers to begin 

 with, you will have a garden gay from early March 

 till late November, and, as you go on, countless 

 other plants will come under your notice, and be 



