Pyrethrum Golden Foliage for Edgings 
A very graceful Knotweed, much best in the 
white variety ; the type having a harsh magenta 
colouring. The foliage of the white-flowered 
plant is of a pale, fresh green, and the flowers 
arch over gracefully. It likes a cool or even a 
moist place, and both thrives and looks best in 
slight shade. 
Portulacca grandiflora ; h.h.a. — No plants 
are more pleasing for a hot, sunny bank. They 
can either be raised in slight heat and planted 
out in June, or they may be sown in place 
from the end of April to the end of May. They 
vary in colouring from light pink to deep crimson, 
and through all shades of yellow and of yellow 
and orange, and are both double and single. 
Pyrethrum Parthenium aureum (i Golden 
Feather Feverfew ) ; h.a. ; 6 to 9 inches. — The 
dwarf form with the bright golden foliage has 
been much used for edgings. It was one of the 
plants that, when summer bedding had usurped 
the place of more thoughtful ways of gardening, 
was used in excess in a wearisome monotony of 
straight or wavy lines, but as an informal accom- 
paniment to such plants of harmonising colour 
as the fine old Calceolaria amplexicaulis , the full 
value of the plant is obtained. The bloom is 
generally removed in order to show the golden 
leaves, but in many cases it is better to leave it, 
as it breaks the often dull uniformity of the 
foliage alone. 
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