THE RUDBECKTA. 
Rudbeckia hirta, 
ST ARDY herbaceous plants have 
been rising in public favour dur- 
ing the past ten years or so, but 
they will never so entirely engross 
the admiration of the English 
amateur as certain over-zealous 
advocates believe and desire. The 
world is tolerably wise as to what 
it wants, and it is useless for 
specialists to go crazy because the 
world will not implicitly follow 
their lead. 
The truth is, the English gar- 
den is a rafter of the English 
household made up of good things 
from all parts of the world, and the 
pelargoniums of the Cape and the 
calceolarias of Peru are as worthy of a place in it as 
the lilies of the Levant or the fuchsias of the Falklands. 
People who enter upon gardening as a recreation are 
usually eclectic in their tastes, and are very quick in dis- 
tinguishing good things from bad ones, and those who 
seek applause by erying up herbaceous weeds and crying 
down bedding plants that make the garden grandly gay 
