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Index to Numbers on 



33. Tritoma nobilis. 



34. Lychnis chalcedonica. 



35. Oriental Poppies and Gypso- 

 phila paniculata (as before). 



36. Heucheras (H. rubrifolia or 

 Richardsoni preferably). 



37. Lilium umbellatum (or other 

 good orange summer-blooming 

 variety). 



38. Tall Orange Day Lilies, e.g., 

 the fine new Hemerocallis 

 aurant. major, or H. Kwanso, 

 fl. pi. 



39. Echinops ritro (blue Globe 

 Thistle. 



40. Thalictrum flavum. 



41 and 42. Dahlias or Cannas. 



43. Telekia speciosa. In strong 

 soil this might run too coarse. 

 In such cases Achillea 

 Eupatorium (Parker's variety) 

 should be substituted. 



44. (Enothera fruticosa (e.g., (E. 

 Fraseri or (E. Youngi). 



First Plan — (continued). 



I 45. Monarda didyma (best scarlet). 



46. (Enothera missouriensis ( = (E. 

 macrocarpa). 



47. Megaseas. 



48. Verbascums, e.g., V. Phlo- 

 moides and V. Chaixi. 



49. Delphiniums. 



50. Pink Hollyhocks. 



51. Eryngiums of sorts. E. 

 Oliverianum at the back will 

 be best. In front for contrast, 

 E. alpinum, E. giganteum, &c. 



52. Lilium candidum and Gypso- 

 phila paniculata. 



53. Pink Paeonies. 



54. Lilium auratum. 



55. Delphiniums. 



56. 57, and 58. Dahlias and (or) 

 Cannas. 



59. Iris (pallida) Dalmatica or 

 odorata 



60. Funkia grandiflora. 



61. Polemonium himalaicum. 



62. Yuccas. See No. 1. 



The foregoing plan has comprised, it will be remembered, 

 plants blooming in late spring, summer, and early autumn. In 

 the first of the two following plans (fig. 103) will be found only 

 those blooming in spring or summer, say till the beginning of 

 August. In the second (fig. 104) will be found only late summer 

 or autumn blooming plants. 



The first of these may be found useful in those many gardens 

 which are quitted by their owners at the end of the London 

 season ; the second in those country seats which, until that 

 time, remain unoccupied. It is obvious that a border planned 

 for all or many seasons can never be as full or as brilliant 

 during any one of them as can a border furnished for one season 

 alone. Either of these plans may, however, be so modified that 

 the border, while retaining, for its main purpose, beauty during 

 one season only, shall not be wholly bare for the rest of the year. 

 For instance, in the autumn border, spring bulbs may be planted. 

 And in the earlier border, either autumn blooming bulbs may be 

 inserted, or even not a few carefully selected herbaceous plants — 

 these latter by the side of the leafless roots of early blooming 

 subjects, whose beauty is past, and whose sere foliage it is well 

 thus to mask. Further (and as in former plan), Dahlias, Cannas 



