^ COLOUR SCHEMES 



of other Michaelmas Daisies that will follow this in 

 time of blooming. But the September borders have a 

 very different appearance because of their flowers of 

 pink and yellow, colours which are absent in those of 

 the later season. 



The yellow flowers are the pale sulphur African Mari- 

 gold and pale yellow and whitish-yellow tall Snap- 

 dragons, with bordering masses of variegated Coltsfoot, 

 and the Golden Feather Feverfew allowed to bloom. 

 The pink colourings are the wide-headed Sedum spec- 

 tabile, pink Japan Anemone and a few pale pink Gladioli. 

 The whites are Dahlias Constance and Henry Patrick, 

 Pyrethrum uliginosum, the charming perenniEd Aster 

 Colerette Blanche and a taller white or yellowish-white 

 Aster with rough stems and harsh-feeling foliage that 

 I know as A. umbellatus. Here also are white Japan 

 Anemones, white Snapdragons and white China Asters 

 of the large, long-stemmed, late-blooming kind that 

 were formerly known as Vick's, but are now called 

 Mammoth. Among the grey bordering plants are 

 groups of dwarf Ageratui^, one of the best of the tender 

 plants of September and quite excellent with the 

 accompanying grey foliage. The grey bordering is not 

 merely an edging but a general front groundwork, 

 running here and there a yard deep into the border. 



Begonias a re at their best throughout the month of 

 September. Beds of Begonias alone never seem to me 

 quite satisfactory. Here there is no opportunity for 

 growing them in beds, but I have them in a bit of narrow 

 border that is backed by shrubs that is kept constantly 



