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check, and their yearly transplantation among other 

 established perennials is likely to cause disturbance 

 and injury to their neighbours. Then, in so many 

 neglected gardens they have been let run wild, sur- 

 viving when other plants have been choked, that, 

 half unconsciously, one has come to hold them cheap 

 and unworthy of the best use. I take it that my 

 own impression is not mine alone, for often when I 

 have been desired to do planting-plans for flower 

 borders, I have been asked not to put in any of these 

 Sunflowers, because " they are so common." 



But nothing is " common " in the sense of b ase or 

 un worthy if it is ,rightbL-as£d. and it seems to me 

 that this Gold garden is just the place where these 

 bright autumn flowers may be employed to great 

 advantage. I have therefore shown Helianthus rigidus 

 and its tall-growing variety Miss Mellish, although 

 the colour of both is quite the deepest I should care to 

 advise ; the pder yellow of H. IcBtiflorus being better, 

 especially the capital pale form of this Sunflower, and 

 of one that I know as a variety of H. orgyalis, described 

 at p. 72. 



The golden Planes, where the path comes in from 

 the north, are of course deciduous, and it might be 

 well to have gold Hollies again at the back of these, 

 or gold Yews, to help the winter effect. 



In some places in the plan the word " gold " has 

 been omitted, but the yellow-leaved or yellow-varie- 

 gated form of the shrub is always intended. There is 

 a graceful cut-leaved Golden Elder that is desirable, 

 as well as the common one. 



