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["HE CENTURY BOOK OF GARDENING. 



MARGUERITES AND SUMMER FLOWERS. 



LU'anJifliiruni, which is generally mistaken for a Campanula, is very beautiful with its quaint 

 balloon-like buds, and shades from white through delicate grey to a tull blue. Michauxia 

 campanuloides is a biennial seldom well managed, but very beautiful under favourable 

 circumstances. The mauve Scabiosa caucasica is supposed to be a perennial, but seed 

 should be sown afresh every alternate year ; so ought the slender Gaura Lindheimeri, w hich 

 is so useful as a cut flower, lasting well in water. 



The dwarf Linum flavum, Linaria dalmatica, and Rudbeckia (Echinacea) purpurea 

 should be always grown, also Inula japonica, which flowers in (une \\ hen yellow flowers are scarce. 

 No border can be complete without the old double while Rocket ( He'. peris matronalis), which in 

 light soils dies away unless it is divided and replanted every year immediately after flowering. 



Chelone barbata and the different Pentstemons prefer a light but moist soil, and must 

 be watered in dry weather ; as they rarelv do well after the third year it is advisable to sow 

 seed everv other year. The blue Catananche caarulca and its white variety are very 

 useful for picking, and easily raised from seed. 1 cannot say too much in favour of the white 

 wallow herb, Epilobium album ; it flowers best if grown in full sun and in poor soil, and it look's 

 very well behind a group of the wild blue Geranium. Some other beautiful combinations for 

 borders that can be watered in dry weather are a group of Lilium candidum in front of a 

 broad mass of blue Delphiniums; the orange Lilium Croccum seen against the blue mist of the 

 wild Salvia or annual Nigella ; purple Pentstemon planted near Coreopsis grandiflora; and Lobelia 

 cardinalis standing out against a mass of white Anemone japonica. Gypsophila paniculata 

 planted in front of, and between, Tulipa Gesneriana or Crown Imperial will hide their withering 

 stems with its cloud of white, and Monarda didyma will screen off the dying foliage of Papaver 

 orientalis. The grev foliage of Artemesia Stelleriana is very useful, and harmonises well with 

 purple and blue flowers ; it is hardier than Cineraria maritima, though this will survive if it is 

 given some protection in the winter. 



For those who have ream, Funkias should have a place, and fcr August flowering no 



