so provide young plants without trouble. As a caution it may be well 
to mention that the old name Clary is rather carelessly used by 
English seedsmen, who sometimes apply it to the smaller purple 
bracted Salvia Horminium: it should be made clear when ordering seed 
that Salvia Sclarea is the kind required. When the best of the Clary 
bloom is over we clear the plants right away and put in their place 
Hydrangeas in pots sunk in the earth. 
For the same kind of use there is nothing better than Lilies in pots ; 
Lilium longiflorum, L. speciosum and L. auratum are among those that 
are most effective and easy to manage. Francoa lianosa is another good 
plant for dropping in and some pots of fine foliage, such as Funkia 
grandijiora and Funkia Sieboldii and hardy Ferns, will be found 
of much use. Where there is glass house accommodations, the fine 
white Brugmansia (or Datura) suaveolens and others of the same family 
dropped in, or as gardeners say "plunged," makes a fine effect in the 
back of the border, as do also pot grown plants of the tall Chimney 
Campanula (C pyramidalis) and its white variety. 
The devising of such expedients adds much to the interest of the 
daily garden work, a part of which should be the critical observation 
of the flower border; noting where a gap needs filling or an overblown 
plant wants cutting back, or where those soon to be in bloom may 
require regulating as to the position or fresh placing of their outer 
branches; also where something that is for foliage only, such as the 
silvery Stachys lanaia, or the deep green Crested Tansy, should have 
the blooming shoots cut out or any growth shortened. 
Such critical observation becomes an education in itself, doing 
much to stimulate invention, and it will be found that though m-any 
matters can be attended to at once for present benefit, there will be 
others that can be noted for further improvement, such as may 
involve such changes as can be carried out only towards the end of the 
year. 
Birds in the Garden 
Ernest Harold Baynes 
Author of "Wild Bird Guests" 
Of ail the wild creatures which can be induced to visit a garden, 
surely birds are altogether the most charming, the most in keeping 
with the spirit of the place. Many of them may be likened to the 
garden flowers — winged blossoms which brighten first one shrub, 
then another — which gleam now from a tree top, now upon the lawn — 
flowers which are perennial, which do not fade and which have the 
added gift of song. I cannot imagine a garden so beautiful that the 
presence of birds would not add to its beauty. And just as one is apt 
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