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its roots, in winter, it will prove quite hardy, and 

 grow into a bush three or four feet high, or still 

 higher if against a wall, and will flower for the 

 whole summer and autumn, the blossoms being of 

 a lovely soft red colour. Cuttings of this plant are 

 easily struck any time in the summer, and a few 

 young plants should always be kept in stock, in 

 case of extra hard frost killing your old favourites. 



Scilla. The little blue Scilla sibirica is so lovely 

 that it is hard to resist getting a good supply of the 

 bulbs to gladden our eyes in the early days of the 

 spring ; they look delicious in the grass if there is 

 some little corner of lawn which need not be mown 

 until their leaves have died down. Their relations, 

 the Chionodoxa lucillce, are also very pretty, rather 

 larger, rather later, and a little less brilliant, than 

 the former ; they are a good blue, with white centre, 

 and look very well as an edging to a bed of Daffodils. 



Scilla campanulata is the most useful in our 

 borders, the white variety being specially beautiful. 

 In form like large, fringed, glorified blue-bells, they 

 should be planted in clumps of about twelve bulbs, 

 raised and divided every few years, as they increase 

 rapidly. They flower in May. 



Spiraea. Of the herbaceous Spiraeas, the most 



