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weeks later, and you may see a garden truck, 
laden with pots of Lilium longiflorum just blos- 
soming, and another of Lobelia cardinalis and 
white stocks. All are brought on in pots or 
boxes and planted quickly to replace the 
campanulas and Viscaria (which was sown in 
heat in March and pricked out in May), the 
lilies being plunged in their pots. After a 
month, these again may give place to summer- 
flowering chrysanthemums, and even Michael- 
mas daisies, either lifted from the nurseries or in 
pots. 
But to expect the average gardener to do 
all this is quite useless. He is much too busy 
over potatoes and other useful things such as 
fruit-picking. Lucky border that even gets 
carefully staked and tied in the summer 
months ! 
Delphiniums, the pride of July, are untidy 
things when their month is over ; if phlox, 
Campanula lactijlora , heleniums, etc., are 
planted near, the gap is not so noticeable. 
But if some solid clumps of pasonies, sweet 
rockets, oriental poppies, doronicums, and 
such early flowering things have been given a 
fair share of the border, there will not be 
room for the later flowering ones. For if 
you restrict the number of the latter, you 
