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but like rich soil, and if you mean to go in for 

 choice sorts, they are better put in a border specially 

 devoted to them, where they can have plenty of 

 manure, and be divided and replanted when they 

 show signs of having exhausted the soil, about 

 every five or six years. 



The old-fashioned cottage garden Paeony, P. 

 officinalis, is to my mind the really nice one for 

 garden borders ; it is not so fastidious, or so greedy, 

 and gives one flowers in plenty every year ; there 

 are several shades of pink and red. 



The time to move Paeonies is late August, or 

 early September, and they can be increased by 

 dividing them ; they can also be grown from seed, 

 but require about five years to become flowering 

 plants. The Tree Paeony can be increased by cut- 

 tings, or by layering them. The foliage of all 

 paeonies takes beautiful colours in the autumn, and 

 is very decorative, either in the garden or with cut 

 flowers. 



Phlox. Herbaceous Phloxes are certainly one of 

 the most valuable plants for the garden, giving us 

 grand masses of brilliant colour in July, August 

 and September; they are very easily grown, and 

 though they prefer a good soil, and a moist soil, 



