COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



they are still rather expensive, but it is already showing the 

 spreading ways of the former and apparently asks no special 

 treatment. Its flowers, that are of the form of the speciosum 

 Lilies, wear a splendid golden apricot colour, and the stalks 

 grow very tall and strong. I think it might appear well 

 with the porcelain blue blossoms of Clematis Davidiana, 

 the new varieties of which, Profusion, Crepuscle, and Gerbe 

 Fleuri, are real improvements over the old. 



Another indispensable flower of strong colour is the 

 Torch Lily (Kniphofia). Although usually regarded as one 

 of September's gayest decorations, there are varieties that 

 give their best to August, and the great spears thrust 

 through a mass of cool blue or lavender or white are arrest- 

 ing indeed. Some of these early bloomers are Express, a 

 beautiful coral red; Leichtlini, Pfitzeri, Torchlight, and 

 Tysoni, a splendid sort with bluish foliage and soft scarlet 

 and yellow torches. All the Kniphofias require care over 

 the winter in the vicinity of New York; south of Phila- 

 delphia they are hardy enough. Mr. Farr says the best 

 way to protect them is "to heel them in by digging a shallow 

 trench and laying them close together in a slanting position 

 in a dry location, covering them with about six inches of 

 earth. . . . They may also be kept in dry earth in a 

 cool cellar." If left in the garden the plants should not be 

 cut down in the fall, nor divided, but given a heavy covering 

 of straw. They should always be set out in spring. 



Eight or ten of these Torch Lilies is not too large a 

 number for a group in a large garden and with them may 

 be set Veronica longifolia and V. virginica, blue and white 

 Chinese Bellflowers, Campanula lactiflora and C.pyramidalis, 



265 



