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beautiful for the mixed border, in small groups, 

 among the other plants ; many of them growing 

 as high as twenty- four inches. 



The list I have given of herbaceous plants may 

 seem a very short one, but if you provide yourself 

 with these, or most of them, to start your garden 

 with, you will certainly have a very gay garden for 

 many months, and it will be an easy matter to 

 add hundreds of others if you choose, selecting 

 from nurserymen's catalogues, or collecting ideas 

 from your friends and neighbours, or you may 

 like to try some of those which I recommend for 

 your consideration in my second list below. I 

 strongly advise you to buy any plants you may re- 

 quire from one of the many first-rate herbaceous 

 nurseries ; you do not have to pay more, and you 

 are sure of getting the right thing, properly named. 

 If you happen to live in Kent you may safely 

 trust either Messrs. Clark, Dover, or George 

 Bunyard, Maidstone, to supply you with good 

 things. The same remark applies to seeds, but 

 this is a more difficult matter, as there are compara- 

 tively few seedsmen who offer seeds of many of the 

 herbaceous plants. I have always got mine from 

 Messrs. Thompson and Morgan, Ipswich, and 

 found them highly satisfactory. 



