Gardening for Amateurs 



So, too, may the Snowdrop Windflower (A. June and July ; and C. rapunculoides, 

 sylvestris), 12 inches high, which has pure purplish blue, 2J to 3 feet, summer flowering, 

 white drooping flowers during early summer. Cimicifuga. This is distinguished by 



spikes of feathery-white blossoms and 

 elegant Spiraea-like foliage. The 

 plants grow 3 to 4 feet high. C. 

 cordifolia, flowering from August to 

 October ; C. racemosa, July to Septem- 

 ber ; and C. simplex, September, 

 are the best. 



Digitalis (Foxglove). Everyone 

 with a garden ought to grow Foxgloves. 

 Their charming spikes of flowers are 

 always welcome, and they are most 

 accommodating plants ; the seeds fall, 

 and young plants spring up in abund- 

 ance. A packet of seed will furnish 

 various shades of colour, rose pink, 

 purple, white, and many prettily 

 spotted flowers. 



Doronicum (Leopard's Bane). 

 Doronicum plantagineum and the 

 variety Harpur Crewe (excelsum) are very 

 accommodating plants, growing and flower- 

 ing freely in the most unfavourable positions. 

 They are about 3 feet high, and flower in 

 spring and early summer ; the yellow flowers 

 are delightful for cutting. 



Epilobium (Willow Herb). The rosy- 



Hardy Cyclamen in a shady corner among ferns. 



Aquilegia (Columbine). The varieties 

 of Columbine are excellent for the shady 

 border ; they vary from 18 inches to 3 feet 

 high, flower during early summer, the 

 prevailing shades of colour being yellow, 

 blue, white, or pretty combinations of blue 

 and white, rose and white, etc. Some of 

 the best to grow are A. cae- 

 rulea, A. chrysantha, A. Skin- 

 neri, A. vulgaris, and the 

 long-spurred hybrids which 

 are readily raised from seeds. 



Campanula (Bell - 

 flower). There are many 

 delightful blue and white 

 Bellflowers ; one might fill 

 a shady border with them. 

 C. glomerata, purple, and its 

 white variety, 1^ feet, 

 flowering from May to July ; 

 C. latifolia, blue, and varieties 

 macrantha, purple, and alba, 

 white, 3 to 5 feet, flowering 

 from June to August ; C. 

 persicaefolia(the Peach -leaved 

 Bellflower), blue, and varie- 

 ties alba, white, alba plena, The beautiful Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla). 

 semi -double white, maxima, 



pale blue, and caerulea flore pleno, semi- magenta flowers of Epilobium angustifolium 

 double blue, Moerheimii, semi -double and the white flowers of the variety, alba, 

 white, height 2 to 2 feet, flowering in are very attractive from June to August. 



