FLOWERS FOR SHADE AND SUNSHINE 



Golden Rod (Solidago), the giant Helenium striatum, the 

 Coneflowers (especially Rudbeckia Golden Glow), and, 

 anomalous though it may seem, even the perennial Sun- 

 flowers. The old Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus) thrives '' 

 excellently out of the sunshine ; so, too, does the French 

 Lilac or Goat's Rue (Galega), although it is inclined, 

 perhaps, to get a little weedy. Galega Hartlandi is the 

 one I recommend. 



The Phlox, to which the garden in August owes so 

 much of its beauty, is never happy in full sunshine. 

 Some of the Lilies are thoroughly well satisfied with occa- 

 sional sunny hours, and it must be a very shady border 

 indeed on which the sun never shines. Lilium tigrinum 

 (the Tiger Lily), Lilium Hansoni (yellow), the lovely 

 scarlet Turk's Cap Lily (pomponium), the purple and 

 white Lilium Martagon, and the Japanese Lilium speciosum 

 (rose and white) are among those for which the shady 

 border has no terrors. Columbines, of course (for may 

 not they be found wild in company with the broad- 

 leaved Bellflower ? ), are first-rate flowers for planting in 

 the shade ; and the Meadow Rue (Thalictrum aquilegiae- 

 folium), a charming plant, with elegant leaves and tall 

 plumes of creamy blossom, is not at all unhappy out of 

 the sunshine. The broad-leaved Megasea cordifolia, with 

 handsome though perhaps somewhat ungainly leaves and 

 rose-pink flowers (in which there is a suspicion of 

 purple), is to be recommended, together with Paeonies 

 and Jacob's Ladder (Polemonium). 



