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with brown or green on yellow or white, and are no 
less beautiful than their hot-house relatives. To 
establish a colony pot plants should be used, or if 
roots from the open ground are obtained it is best 
to start them in pots of peaty soil rather than plant 
immediately in the open. When once the plants 
make themselves at home it is inadvisable to disturb 
them until they become really crowded. 
Delphinium. — Few indeed are they who have a 
taste for flowers at all, and who yet do not admire 
Delphiniums. It may indeed be claimed that these 
stately plants are special favourites with the vast 
majority of garden lovers, and almost invariably 
when one's advice is sought about planning a 
garden or selecting subjects for a herbaceous border 
the question is asked with hopeful expectancy, 
' Can we have some Delphiniums ? ' It is fortunate 
indeed that a genus of such irresistible attractiveness 
may be grown in most gardens with little difficulty, 
subject only to certain well-defined conditions that 
are not usually difficult to fulfil. 
In the first place. Delphiniums ask for a sunny 
position away from the shade of trees. It is unwise 
to plant them in positions where they will be exposed 
to rough winds or cutting draughts, the former 
being likely to break down the tallest and most 
effective spikes, while the latter will frequently 
result in attacks of mildew, a disease to which 
Delphiniums are somewhat prone. In regard to 
soil the very best is a deep rich loam, well and 
