HARDY PLANTS. 
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Barbarea (Double Yellow Rocket). — A hardy perennial, 
belonging to the Wallflower family (Cruciferae). B. vulgaris 
fl.-pl. grows about i Sin. high and bears bright yellow double 
flowers freely from May to September. A showy and inter- 
esting plant for large or small gardens. There is also a 
variegated variety with yellowish foliage which is useful for 
edging. Both will succeed in ordinary soil in a sunny border. 
Plant in autumn or spring. The double kind is increased by 
cuttings of side shoots inserted in a shady border in summer, 
or by division in spring* The variegated one may be increased 
likewise or by seeds. 
Belli s (Daisy). — Favourite old garden flowers that are 
not grown nearly so generally as their merits deserve. In 
days gone by hardly a garden existed that did not contain 
the Double White or the Double Red Daisy. These simple 
and showy plants make excellent edgings to spring beds or to 
borders, and are exceedingly easy to grow. The best sorts to 
grow are : Double Red, Double White, Rob Roy, scarlet ; 
Snowflake, white ; Rubens, crimson scarlet ; Venus, white, 
very large flower; The Bride, white, large; Madame Crousse, 
lilac, exceedingly pretty; not forgetting the old “Hen and 
Chickens,” and the white and crimson-flowered forms of 
Aucubaefolia. with mottled foliage, and the striped red and 
white Victoria. The foregoing will thrive in any good moist 
garden soil • On light soils they are apt to shrivel and die 
in hot weather, and in heavy damp soils to rot in winter. 
Our practice is to lift the plants directly they have flowered, 
divide them, and then replant six inches apart in a nursery 
bed under the shade of fruit trees or on a north border. Here 
they remain till October or March, and are then transferred 
to their flowering quarters. Under this code of treatment the 
plants do well. In small gardens the plants may be left undis- 
turbed for a couple of years, then be lifted out, divided, and 
replanted. Double daisies may be reproduced from seed, but 
a large proportion of the seedlings only bear single flowers. 
Beta. (Beet). — The variegated and purple-leaved forms of 
the common garden beet are often used for summer bedding 
in the flower garden. B. cicla variegata (Chilian Beet) has 
leaves upwards of 3ft. long and of varying tints from orange 
to crimson. Other popular kinds are: Braziliensis, crimson 
and yellow-leaved ; dracaentefolia, narrow dark crimson 
foliage ; Victoria, blood-red leaves ; and Crimson Willow-leaved, 
with narrow, willowy, reflexed, crimson-bronze foliage. Sow 
the seeds in sandy soil in heat in February or March, transplant 
when large enough to handle into boxes, and finally plant out 
in the garden in May. 
