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purple. The plants make big clumps which may 
be lilted and divided as required. 
Gaillardia. — For brilliant colours, freedom, and 
continuity of flowering, easiness of culture, and 
decorative value in a cut state the Gaillardias are 
among our most popular perennials. Quite good 
forms are obtainable from seed, whilst a few named 
varieties are so particularly fine that they amply 
repay the outlay involved in securing true stock, 
which may be increased by making cuttings of the 
young growths in Spring. Mrs. McKellar is one 
of the most beautiful, the large flowers being of 
rich blood-crimson with a narrow margin of clear 
gold. Lady Rolleston is entirely yellow, but there 
are several other good varieties in commerce. 
Cultural requirements are of the simplest. 
Galega. — With a considerable amount of beauty 
both in flower and leaf, but at the same time a 
proneness to become somewhat dishevelled and 
rough in appearance as the season advances, the 
best use to which the ordinary types of Galega can 
be put is to fill big spaces in positions where some- 
thing able to take care of itself is required. Both 
the mauve and white varieties of Galega officinalis 
are among the easiest and freest of plants, and seeds 
sown thinly on the ground they are to occupy will 
quickly develop into flowering plants. We have 
now, however, larger flowered and brighter mauves 
and purer whites, which are of considerably greater 
merit and utility. His Majesty and Her Majesty 
