THE GARDEN IN AUTUMN ']^ 



composite flowers, and grow to a height of five or six 

 feet. H. autumnale is the most generally valuable. 



The Cone-flowers, or Rudbeckias, are also handsome 

 American plants, the best being R. speciosus, which bears 

 orange flowers with dark yellow centres, and is a very 

 fine bloomer. 



But even more useful and important than Heleniums 

 and Rudbeckias are the various perennial sunflowers, 

 of which Helianthus multiflorus and H. rigidus, with 

 their varieties, are perhaps the best worth cultivating. 



All these North American composites are such very 

 vigorous growers that they should not be placed in close 

 proximity to small or delicate plants, and it is advisable 

 — except in quite wild places — to take them up every 

 two years and divide the roots. 



The Michaelmas Daisies, or tall-growing Asters, are 

 steadily growing in favour coincidently with the growth 

 of the popular taste. Deep cultivation, moderately rich 

 soil, and division every two or three years, are the 

 conditions of their successful culture. Aster ericoides, 

 A. amellus bessarabicus, A. acris, A. Shortii and A. vim- 

 ineus are a few good kinds. 



Both the white and the rose-coloured varieties of 

 Anemone Japonica should be grown, and are of the 

 easiest culture. They may be rapidly increased by 

 division, and should be allowed to develop into bold 

 clumps. Megasea cordifolia and the Pampas Grass are 

 among the autumnal bloomers, as also are the Crocus- 

 like Colchicums, the even more delicately coloured 

 autumn Crocuses, Sedum spectabile, Sternbergia lutea, 

 the late-flowering Gladioli, and the beautiful Amaryllis 

 Belladonna. 



Quite unlike all other autumn flowers — indeed unlike 

 all other flowers — the Japanese Chrysanthemum gives 

 us the latest display of brilliant colouring of the garden 

 year. For border decoration, they may be treated much 



