AUGUST 109 



Heuchera Bichardsoni, tliat will hold its satin-surfaced 

 leaves till the end of the year. Farther back in the 

 border is a group of the scarlet-flowered Dahlia Fire 

 King, and behind these, Dahlias Lady Ardilaun and 

 Cochineal, of deeper scarlet colouring. The Dahlias 

 are planted between groups of Oriental Poppy, that 

 flower in May and then die away till late in autumn. 

 Right and left of the scarlet group are Tritomas, 

 intergrouped with Dahlias of moderate height, that 

 have orange and flame-coloured flowers. This leads 

 to some masses of flowers of strong yellow colouring ; 

 the old perennial Sunflower, in its tall single form, 

 and the best variety of the old double one of moderate 

 height, the useful S. Icetijbrus and the tall Miss 

 Mellish, the giant form of Helianthiis rigidus. Rud- 

 heclda Newmanni reflects the same strong colour in 

 the front part of the border, and all spaces are filled 

 with orange Zinnias and African Marigolds and yellow 

 Hehchrysum. As we pass along the border the colour 

 changes to paler yellow by means of a pale perennial 

 Sunflower and the sulphur-coloured annual kind, with 

 Paris Daisies, , (Enothera lamarckiana and Verlascum 

 phlomoides. The two last were cut down to about 

 four feet after their earliest bloom was over, and 

 are now again full of profusely-flowered lateral growths. 

 At the farther end of the border we come again to 

 glaucous foliage and pale-pink flower of Gladiolus and 

 Japan Anemone. It is important in such a border of 

 Tather large size, that can be seen from a good space 



