PLANTS WORTH GROWING 113 
to late Autumn, and over its yellow and green 
setting the rosy purple spikes of Liatris, or the 
white racemes of Cimicifugas are thrown into fine 
relief. 
Many such combinations will suggest themselves 
to artistic tastes, and as the Chrysogonum is a 
good-tempered plant that will thrive almost any- 
where it should be freely used to cover otherwise 
bare intervals of space. 
Cichorium Intybus. — This is the Wild Chicory 
that grows so freely on chalk cliffs, and because 
it grows wild is so little used in gardens, but its 
clear sky-blue flowers are of a shade we can never 
have too much of, and a good colony of a dozen 
or more plants, given perhaps only an awkward 
comer of the garden, on a bank, or by a dry wall, 
will form a fine and distinctive feature. The 
plant has rigid stems that break out in angular 
fashion, and the blue starry blossoms nestle in the 
joints of the stems. Some lime in the soil is all 
the plant asks for to make it happy. 
Cimicifuga. — There is something quite uncommon 
and extremely graceful in the whole appearance 
of a well-developed and flourishing clump of 
Cimicifuga. The foliage is elegant and beautiful, 
and the feathery racemes, like long fluffy tassels, 
are pure white in some, ivory or cream in others, 
but always charming. The plant loves a cool moist 
root-run, and does best when the soil is rather 
light, either peat or leaf -mould being beneficial to 
