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of the path, where it breaks the general front line 

 pleasantly and shows off its good soft colouring. We 

 grow only this pale colour and a good form of the 

 splendid orange. The intermediate one, the full 

 yellow African Marigold, has, to my eye, a raw quaUty 

 that I am glad to avoid, and I have other plants that 

 give the strong yellow colour better. Now at the 

 back are some plants of the single Hollyhock, Hibiscus 

 fici/olius, white and pale yellow, recalling, as we merge 

 into the stronger yellows, the colouring of the region 

 just left. They are partly intergrouped with that 

 excellent plant Rudbeckia Golden Glow, brilliant, 

 long-lasting, and capable of varied kinds of useful 

 treatment. 



Now we come to a group of the perennial Sunflowers ; 

 a good form of the double Helianthus multiflorus in 

 front, and behind it the large single kind of the same 

 plant. By the side of these is a rather large group of 

 a garden form of H. orgyalis. This is one of the 

 perennial Simflowers that are usually considered not 

 good enough for careful gardening. It grows very 

 tall, and bears a smallish bimch of yellow flowers at 

 the top. If this were all it could do, it would not be 

 in my flower border. But in front of it grows a patch 

 of the fine Tansy-like Achillea Eupatorium, and in 

 front of this again a wide-spreading group of Eryngium 

 oliverianum — beautiful all through July. When the 

 bloom of these is done the tall Smiflower is trained 

 down over them — this pulling down, as in the case of 

 so many plants, causing it to throw up flower-stalks 

 from the axils of every pair of leaves ; so that in 



