COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Corn Flowers, Love-in-a-mist, the great Sea Lavender, 

 Salvia Blue Beard, lavender coloured annual Larkspur, 

 salmon and flame-coloured Zinnias and Snapdragons, 

 flaming Montbretias in groups of a dozen or fifteen, 

 lavender China Asters, and little spreads of soft-coloured 

 Ageratum. 



With the Sunflowers and Coneflowers (Rudbeckia) we 

 get rather harsh colour though it is not nearly so objection- 

 able as it would have been in the earlier year. Most of the 

 members of these two families are too coarse and pervasive 

 for the dressed flower garden and are more at home among 

 the jolly Joe Pyes and Golden Rods of the August meadows. 

 The annual Cut-and-come-agains I do not sow any more 

 even for cutting, though some of the pale coloured sorts are 

 rather pretty. 



The double forms of Helianthus multiflorus — Golden 

 Ball, Soleil d'Or, and plenus — are among the best of 

 hardy plants, having shining, persistent foliage and up- 

 right carriage. The rigidus type to which belong Miss 

 Mellish, Rev. C. Wolly Dod, and Daniel Dewar, should, I 

 think, be excluded from the flower garden. Many years ago 

 I set out a few roots in a long border against the garden wall 

 and now it is only by means of the most strenuous measures 

 that any other plant can get so much as a root-hold in this 

 border. Every year we dig it out at least a foot and remove 

 every smallest particle of root that we can find and yet, 

 when August comes round, there is always the brazen din 

 of those Sunflowers sounding above the deeper notes of 

 imperial Ironweed and old purple Phlox that grow in the 

 same border. The association is very pretty and one would 



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