100 FLOWER GARDENING 
Among the latter are several of the loveliest wind- 
flowers—Anemone sylvestris, A. blanda, A. St. 
Brigid and A. fulgens; the turban and Lebanon 
ranunculus and Rehmannia angulata. These, as 
well as the various hellebores known as Christmas 
and Lent roses—which, if they survive the winter 
in the open, do not always bloom satisfactorily in 
December, January and March—may be grown 
in pots sunk in ashes in a tight coldframe or kept 
cool indoors until brought out to bloom. 
Some perennials hold strictly to species. Others 
have a perplexing number of varieties, the peony, 
Phlox paniculata, pyrethrum and larkspur running 
up into hundreds, and the original type may be 
lost altogether in cultivation. Where there is a 
choice of varieties, seek out the best. There is 
the greatest difference in the world, as to both 
size and color of bloom, between the best of the 
peonies, phloxes, pyrethrums and larkspurs and 
those that are neither bad nor yet very good. And 
of the best select not many kinds; a dozen plants 
each of the lovely new double pale pink pyrethrum 
Queen Mary and as many more of that admirable 
double white, Carl Vogt, make a much finer show- 
ing than a mixture of two each of twelve va- 
rieties. 
So, too, a massing of the Festiva Maxima peony 
or the old-fashioned red “‘piny” is better than the 
same number of plants in varied assortment, while 
Phlox paniculata loses half its effectiveness when 
there is not a generous grouping of one kind. 
