JULY 95 



quantity of bloom. But it is difficult to grow Carna- 

 tions on our very poor soil ; even when it is carefully 

 prepared they still feel its starving and drying influ- 

 ence, and show their distaste by unusual shortness of 

 life. 



Gypsophila paniculata is one of the most useful 

 plants of this time of year ; its delicate masses of 

 bloom are like clouds of flowery mist settled down 

 upon the flower borders. Shooting up behind and 

 among it is a tall, salmon-coloured Gladiolus, a telling 

 contrast both in form and manner of inflorescence. 

 Nothing in the garden has been more satisfactory 

 and useful than a hedge of the white everlasting Pea. 

 The thick, black roots that go down straight and deep 

 have been undisturbed for some years, and the plants 

 yield a harvest of strong white bloom for cutting that 

 always seems inexhaustible. They are staked with stiff, 

 branching spray, thrust into the ground diagonally, 

 and not reaching up too high. This supports the 

 heavy mass of growth without encumbering the upper 

 blooming part. 



Hydrangeas are well in flower at the foot of a warm 

 wall, and in the same position are spreading masses of 

 the beautiful Clematis davidiana, a herbaceous kind, 

 with large, somewhat vine-like leaves, and flowers of a 

 pale-blue colour of a delicate and uncommon quality. 



The blooming of the Lilium giganteum is one of the 

 great flower events of the year. It is planted in rather 

 large straggling groups just within the fringe of the 



