Example from the Globe Flower Order 39 



company with the Butterbur and the Hemlock. The 

 larger rich blue kinds, and the blue and white one, 

 are showy grown in deep soils, in which they attain 

 a great height. When out of flower, like many other 

 stately perennials, they were often stiff and ugly in 

 the old borders and beds ; in the wild garden their 

 stately forms when flower-time is gone, no longer tied 



into bundles or cut in by the 

 knife, will group finely with 

 other vigorous herbaceous 

 vegetation. 

 The Delphiniums, or tall Pe- 

 rennial Larkspurs, 

 are aitio^ngs! xEk 

 most beautiful of 

 all flowers. They 

 embrace almost 

 every shade of blue, 

 and, being usually 

 of a tall and strong 

 type, will make way 

 among vigorous 

 weeds, unlike many 

 things for which we 

 have to recommend an open space, or a wood with 

 nothing but a carpet of moss under the trees. 



One of the prettiest effects which I have seen was 

 a colony of tall Larkspurs. Portions of old roots had 

 been chopped off by the men when a bed of these 



TAiL PERENNIAL lAEKSPUKS. naturalized in 

 Shrubbery (1B78). 



