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place at all in a good collection of flowers. I refer more than 

 anything else to Summer Chrysanthemums, which are now very 

 frequently grown where one would least have expected it. 

 Chrysanthemums are all very well in their way, and at their 

 own proper dark, dreary, season of the year. Then they do 

 serve to gladden us by the bright and varied colours which 

 they display ; but why should we go 'out of our way to make 

 the year go faster than it needs to go ? A reminder of October 

 is no pleasure to me in the glorious sunshine of July and 

 August, and who can say that the flowers which properly 

 belong to those months have been used up so that something 

 else must be introduced ? I would sooner fall back again on 

 yellow Calceolarias and red Geraniums if I had to take my 

 choice between them and Summer Chrysanthemums ; and 

 yet I know of a garden — a very delightful garden — in which 

 many good things are to be found, where this antedating of 

 autumn invariably takes place, and I expect that others resemble 

 it. The best and most interesting collection of plants which I 

 have ever seen in late summer is that of Mr. Wolley-Dod at Edge 

 Hall. There both variety and colour have indeed a full run, and 

 one could never be tired of looking at the multitudinous speci- 

 mens of fine herbaceous plants which abound on every side. In a 

 garden such as that, and in many like it, a bright glorious summer 

 day brings its own especial delights. If spring is the tender 

 harbinger of hope, summer speaks of fruition — which has really 

 come ; and when insect life is everywhere on the wing, and flowers 

 are throwing back their petals to the sun, one cannot but feel 

 that we live in a happy world after all. I defy anyone to be a 

 pessimist in such a scene and under such circumstances as these, 

 and I for my part subscribe cx ammo to the well-known words of 

 the poet : 



'Tis my faith that every flower 

 Enjoys the air it breathes. 



THE PICTURESQUE USE OF HARDY SUMMER 

 PERENNIAL PLANTS. 



By Miss Jekyll, F.R.H.S. 



A great French artist has said " Painting is an art of many 

 sacrifices." Gardening, from the picturesque point of view, is 



