COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



and many of these plants are too lacking in refinement and 

 too pervasive in character for any save Nature's bold and 

 broad planting. Others, however, are invaluable for filling 

 out the lines of the late summer and autumn garden, but 

 they should be adroitly mingled with flowers of more intri- 

 cate design and polished habit. It is the Daisy type of 

 composite that makes so many late summer gardens 

 monotonous in appearance, and while many of these are 

 important, a good word should be said for those of the 

 family that are less typical. All the Thistles, including the 

 handsome Globe Thistles, are members of the order, the 

 splendid Ironweed, the useful Achilleas, Artemisias, Liatris, 

 and Golden Rods. These are quite as useful in relieving 

 the Daisy type, among which belong Dahlias, Cosmos, 

 Chrysanthemums, Centaureas, Sunflowers, Heleniums, Mi- 

 chaelmas Daisies, Zinnias, and a host of others, as are plants 

 of any other order. 



No plants are more easily grown than the composites of 

 the Daisy type, and we are too quick to make use of them 

 and too prone to let them spread unchecked until the 

 hearty countenance of the August garden has quite lost the 

 charm of varied expression and we have moreover mats and 

 tangles of almost invincible roots and fecund rootlets below 

 the surface of the soil to cause us endless trouble for years 

 to come. 



It is well too, in the August garden to consider the 

 subject of coolness in its colour scheme, for while we would 

 not shut out the bright-coloured blossoms a cool picture 

 here and there is a welcome relief to the eye. Such a 

 picture is now at its height in my garden, and to no other do 



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