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Gardening for Amateurs 



Perennial Marguerites (Chrysanthemum) and Phloxes grouped in the flower border. 



Another very successful bed may be planted 

 with the white Japanese Anemone and the 

 yellow Lilium Hansoni ; the green foliage of 

 the Anemone makes a perfect setting for 

 the Lilium flowers, while the Anemone gives a 

 good display during autumn. 



An informal grouping of the pink and white 

 Japanese Anemones, with groups of the 

 orange-red Lilium pardalinum among them, 

 gives a double display and is very effective. 

 The Japanese Stonecrop (Sedum spectabile) 

 makes a very effective bed for the summer, 

 while Daffodils should be interplanted for a 

 spring display. 



Achillea filipendulina is a splendid yellow- 

 flowered Yarrow for a large bed, and Globe 

 Flowers or Trollius may be planted between 

 for a spring show. 



Hollyhock and Plantain Lily. Holly- 

 hocks are most effective in the garden ; 

 they show best against a background of 

 trees or a tall hedge. Hollyhocks also look 

 charming when planted in front of an old 

 creeper-clad wall, especially if in front of 

 the Hollyhocks are grouped such fine foliage 

 plants as Funkia Sieboldi (Plantain Lily) 



and Acanthus. Hollyhocks should be raised 

 from seed every year, as they are then less 

 liable to the Hollyhock rust, that proved so 

 destructive as practically to banish them 

 from our gardens for some years. If seed 

 is sown in January or February in a warm 

 greenhouse the plants will bloom the same 

 year ; if sown out of doors in June the seed- 

 lings will blossom in the year following. 



White-flowered Honesty is very beautiful 

 in the wilder parts of a garden, especially if 

 arranged in front of dark evergreens ; 

 later in the season its silvery seed-vessels 

 prolong the display. So fine is the white 

 variety of the common Honesty that it is 

 surprising it is not grown more generally. 

 It looks very well also when mixed with 

 the common or purple -flowered form. In 

 similar situations the Evening Primrose 

 (Oenothera lamarckiana) and the common 

 Rocket or Dame's Violet (Hesperis matrona- 

 lis) are easily naturalised and prove most 

 effective. The double forms of the Common 

 Rocket are precious plants for the garden, but 

 require good cultivation, and to be propa- 

 gated annually by means of off-shoots ; it 



