HARDY BORDER FLOWERS 115 
coloured than the old sorts. The white Rock Cress may be grown 
from cuttings with the greatest ease. I have taken cuttings in late 
June, placing them in a shady border, and ina few months’ time 
each plant covered 1 square foot of space, while the following spring 
they were masses of bloom. The purple Rock Cress is also increased 
by cuttings in June; these are dibbled in sandy soil in a shady spot 
and covered with a handlight. 
Bee Balm, Monarda didyma.—A delightful old fashioned 
plant that makes spreading tufts of scented foliage from which, in 
early summer, rise the flowering stems 3 or 4 feet high. The blooms 
are red, and, though not so showy as some, they last well and have a 
quaint beauty that proves most attractive. The Bee Balm (it is well 
named, by the way, for the bees have an especial fondness for the . 
flowers, and the Balm-like fragrance of the leaves is most pro- 
nounced) thrives anywhere in the garden except in the shadiest 
spots. It spreads rapidly and at least every three or four years the 
tufts need dividing. 
Bellflower or Campanula.—The most useful Bellflowers for 
the borders of the little garden are the Peach leaved (Campanula 
persicifolia) and its white variety. They come up year after year, 
soon making good clumps; when these become crowded they should 
be divided, replanting the outsidé pieces and discarding those from 
the centre. The broad leaved Bellflower (C. latifolia) is a British 
plant. I have found it growing wild in dense woods. It 
grows 8 or 4 feet high, bearing blue, bell shaped flowers. Most use- 
tul for odd shady corners where little else will grow. C. Medium 
is the Canterbury Bell (see p. 116). There are many beautiful 
dwarf growing Bellflowers suitable for the rock garden or front 
of the flower border, but the beginner will do well to try the others 
first. The Chimney Bellflower (C. pyramidalis) is particularly 
handsome ; more often grown in the greenhouse than out of. 
doors. Seed is sown in July to produce plants that will bloom the 
next summer. 
Candytuft.—An old fashioned flower that everyone likes to 
grow. The best of the perennial kinds—those that form an_ever- 
green carpet of leafage and bloom year after year—are Iberis 
sempervirens and I. garrexiana. They make an excellent edging to 
walks, and may be relied upon to cover a rock face with a curtain of 
leaf and flower if planted in good soil behind the top of the rock. 
When covered with their pure white blossom in April and May there 
are few plants more beautiful to look upon. Cuttings taken after 
the flowers are over are not difficult to rout in sandy soil in a shaded 
frame. The annual Candytufts (raised from seed sown outdoors in 
March) are quite indispensable. Few plants give such a brilliant 
display in return for such a small outlay and so little trouble. They 
are to be had in great variety of colouring ; red, white, purple, 
carmine, rose, etc. I think the carmine shade is particularly showy. 
From seed sown in March the plants will bloom in July. Invalu- 
able as a summer edging to borders. 
