THE GARDEN AT HOME 



for the show border, form admirable clumps topped by 

 large and attractive blossoms for the border in the shade, 

 and there will command unstinted admiration. The 

 Foxglove, although found growing wild, is a valued 

 garden plant also, and for the shady border is scarcely 

 surpassed ; it has the great merit of perpetuating 

 itself from self-sown seed. If the old flower heads are 

 left alone until the seeds have fallen there will arise 

 little colonies of seedlings in all sorts of unexpected places, 

 even in the gravel walks and between the chinks of moss- 

 grown stone. 



Spiraeas are lovely summer flowers and most of them 

 thrive best in the shady garden, unless, if exposed to 

 sunshine, their roots are in bog land or water. In an 

 ordinary flower border they begin to look very miserable 

 after a week's hot weather. The Goat's Beard (Spiraea 

 Aruncus) is one of the loveliest of all, and I am happy 

 in being able to give an illustration that does justice to 

 this noble plant. Another handsome Spiraea is called 

 Davidi, with tall spires of purplish blossom. Then the 

 white Japanese Spiraea (japonica) and the two exquisite 

 pink-blossomed sorts called Peach Blossom and Queen 

 Alexandra are most attractive, too. The Globe Flowers 

 (Trollius), that bear globe-shaped blooms of orange or 

 yellow in May, are real shade lovers, and they make a 

 charming succession to the Leopard's Bane (Doronicum 

 Harpur Crewe), which has big, yellow, Daisy-like flowers 

 in April. This, too, is essentially a plant for the border 



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