French Marigolds 
But it should be remembered that if the plant 
was misused it was not the fault of the plant 
but that of the general acceptance of a poor 
type of gardening. The little Feverfew is a 
beautiful and delightful thing, useful where an 
edging accompanies plants of gold-variegated 
foliage and pale yellow bloom. It can be 
variously treated, either by letting it bloom, 
when its colouring of white and pale gold com- 
bines pleasantly with the gold-green leaves, or 
with the bloom picked out so as to leave a 
dwarfed plant of foliage only. Among the 
quite dwarf French Marigolds there are a number 
of pretty little edging plants ; the smallest, 
known as Miniature, are only from 4 to 6 inches 
high, and are in separate colours of lemon, 
orange, and that fine mixture of deep orange 
and mahogany brown that is so valuable in all 
these handsome plants. Tagetes signata pnmila 
will come among this group, very dwarf and of 
fine orange colouring. A pretty dwarf Marigold 
that is undeservedly neglected is Tagetes lucida, 
a short, neat plant of rather upright habit and 
deep yellow flowers, with a pleasant scent like 
Anise. 
Among the annuals that are suited for edgings 
and that are sown in place, some of the best are 
the dwarf Eschscholzias of deep orange and 
crimson colourings. The pretty double Daisy, 
Matricaria inodora, a garden form of the familiar 
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