THE GARDEN IN JULY 59 



so placed that the bee cannot get at the honey without 

 covering its head with pollen, which it then bears to 

 another flower. The stigma is not in evidence until the 

 stamens have died, when it occupies a similarly ob- 

 structive position in the road of the pollen-covered bee. 

 Martagon Lilies, Alstroemerias, Montbretias, English 

 Irises, Hollyhocks, Lupins, Perennial Peas, Coreopsis, 

 Scabious, Galega officinalis alba and all the species of 

 Campanula are among the July bloomers. Pretty as 

 they are, the old blue and white Canterbury Bells are by 

 no means so graceful as many of the other Bellflowers. 

 C.pyramidalis, C. per sicif alia and C. glomerata are among the 

 best of the tall kinds, whilst from the dwarfer species 

 may be selected C. isophylla, C. carpatica, C. alpina, and 

 C. turbinata. 



In July also the handsome plants of the Thistle family 

 are at their period of greatest beauty. Echinops ruthenicus, 

 E. ritro, Eryngium amethystinum, E. Oleverianum, E. gigan- 

 teum and E. glaciale are among the finest, but those habi- 

 tants of the kitchen garden — the Cardoon and the Globe 

 Artichoke — require much excellency in their peers. 



July is the month of climax for the gardener who 

 grows only annual flowers raised afresh each year from 

 seed. A very fine show he may have, too, during his 

 somewhat brief season. To the grower of herbaceous 

 plants who aims, and wisely aims, at having flowers all 

 the year through, July is but one month out of twelve. 

 Spring means for him not a season for sowing, so much 

 as a very flowery season, full of Crocuses and Ane- 

 mones, of Primroses and of Hepaticas ; for him even 

 winter itself is not flowerless, since he has his Hellebores 

 and winter Aconites and fragrant Coltsfoot. But with 

 annual flowers the case is different. It is true that, 

 by sowing in July or August, one may obtain such 

 beautiful flowers as those of Erysimum, Nemophila and 

 Saponaria calabrica in the spring, but the great bulk of 



