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adapted for the mixed border are the double white Achillea Ptarmica fl.-pl. The Pearl, Peruvian 

 Lilies, or Alstroemerias, both the hybrid section, whose flowers range through gentle colour 

 gradations from cream to crimson, and the orange-blossomed A. aurea ; the hybr d Aquilegias, 

 with their graceful, long-spurred flowers, whose yellow and white cups are shown off by wide 

 perianths of purple, blue, grey, scarlet, pink, and flesh colour, and which form exquisite pictures 

 when grown in breadths. These plants should be raised annually from seed and planted in the 

 border during their second autumn, when they will provide a far finer display than if the old 

 plants are allowed to remain another year. Coreopsis grandiflora, which produces a profusion of 

 large bright, yellow flowers, is one of the most useful plants for the mixed border, as it comes 

 into bloom at the end of May and continues its display through the summer, while Gaillardia 

 grandiflora is equally decorative. Centaurea macrocephala, with its great yellow flower heads, is a 

 striking subject planted well back" in the bed, as is the Globe Thistle (Echinops Ritro), while the 

 Sea Hollies, Eryngium amethystinum and E. Oliverianum, provide a steely-blue that is quite 

 unique in the border. Chi vsogonum virginianum is attractive when bearing its yellow flowers 

 in the spring, and Chelona barbata when it perfects its spires of drooping orange scarlet flowers 

 in the summer. 



The Dav Lilies are handsome both in flower and leafage, the earliest of them, 

 Hemerocallis flava, bearing clear yellow, scented flowers. This is followed by the stronger- 

 growing, orange buff H. fulva, the double H. Kwanso, w ith strikingly variegated foliage, and 



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the late introduction, H. aurantiaca major, a very vigorous variety, bearing eight or ten flowers 

 on a stem, some of these being 7m. in diameter. Hypericum Moserianum is a pleasing St. John's 

 Wort, and Inula glandulosa bears large, narrow-rayed star-flowers of a bright orange colour. 

 Geum coccineum fl.-pl. produces its bright crimson blooms over a long period of time, and 

 Gypsophila paniculata with its billows of flower-lace, composed of countless minute white 

 blossoms on a maze of hair-fine stalks, is invaluable for enhancing the attractions of its 

 companions in the border by its distinct habit. The white Libertia grandiflora, the scarlet 



