THE LITTLE FORMAL GARDEN 



and Summer Marguerite, or Shasta Daisy. Among the 

 biennials, those raised from seed sown the summer pre- 

 vious to that in which flowers are wanted, one must of 

 course choose Wallflowers, Foxgloves, Sweet Williams, 

 and Canterbury Bells all delightful summer blossoms. 

 For autumn there should be Japanese Anemones and 

 tall, scarlet Lobelias, outdoor Chrysanthemums, a few 

 Torch Lilies or Red-hot Pokers, Asters and Marguerite 

 Carnations, Pentstemons, and Coreopsis grandiflora, the 

 golden Tickseed. Among summer and autumn bulbs, we 

 cannot omit the Spanish and English Irises, Gladioli and 

 Montbretias. 



Orice the garden is made there will be little difficulty 

 about the choice of plants, especially if the margins are 

 first planted with a few attractive little tufts of drooping 

 and creeping plants. At once the garden assumes a 

 neglige air that, in association with neat, flagged paths 

 and a formal design, can never degenerate into untidiness. 

 One might select, for instance, some of the low-growing 

 Bellflowers, Campanula carpatica and variety alba, por- 

 tenschlagiana, an exquisite little blue-flowered plant, 

 the tufted Saxifrages, especially that most beautiful 

 white sort called Wallacei, Pinks in abundance, and 

 Carnations falling over the border margins, with, of 

 course, such favourites as Rock Cress (Aubrietia), 

 Cerastium, London Pride, Musk, and others. It is well 

 worth while to raise the 'beds a little, and to support them 

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