134 WOOD AND GARDEN 



Then we go back to the flower border and dig out 

 all the plants that have to be divided every year. It 

 will also be the turn for some others that only want 

 division every two or three or more years, as the case 

 may be. First, out come all the perennial Sunflowers. 

 These divide themselves into two classes ; those whoso 

 roots make close clumpy masses, and those that throw 

 out long stolons ending in a blunt snout, which is the 

 growing crown for next year. To the first division 

 belong the old double Sunflower {Helianthus midtiflorus), 

 of which I only keep the well-shaped variety Soleil d'Or, 

 and the much taller large-flowered single kind, and a 

 tall pale-yellow flowered one with a dark stem, whose 

 name I do not know. It is not one of the kinds 

 thought much of, and as usually grown has not much 

 effect ; but I plant it at the back and pull it down over 

 other plants that have gone out of flower, so that instead 

 of having only a few flowers at the top of a rather bare 

 stem eight feet high, it is a spreadiag cloud of pale 

 yellow bloom ; the training down, as in the case of so 

 many other plants, inducing it to throw up a short 

 flowering stalk from the axil of every leaf along the 

 stem. The kinds with the running roots are Heliavihus 

 rigidus, and its giant variety Miss Mellish, H. decapetoLus 

 and M. Icetiflorus. I do not know how it may be in 

 other gardens, but in mine these must be replanted 

 every year. 



Phloxes must also be taken up. They are always 

 diflScult here, unless the season is unusually rainy; 



