THE MIXED BORDER 
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these starworts, any number may be included, 
but in the herbaceous border a judicious choice 
must be made. 
A very good variety was Harpur Crewe, 
but since Climax has been introduced, with a 
flower twice its size and of better growth, 
there is now no reason to grow the former. 
Nor need anyone owning Lil Fardell grow 
Mrs Rayner or Elsie Perry. It is important 
to remember that there is a vast difference be- 
tween the man who collects and the man who 
accumulates. Always try for the best of its 
kind, and having obtained it, burn or pass on 
the inferior variety it has replaced. Man is 
naturally acquisitive, but the small gardener 
(always, be it understood, in the same sense as 
the “ small holder ”) must restrain this instinct 
if he wishes to have a beautiful border, and 
not a muddled, crowded glory-hole for other 
people’s rubbish. 
In planting our borders there need not be 
the same striving after broad effects that is 
obligatory with borders of great length and 
width. Where it is under one’s hand, so to 
speak, it is possible to mix the colours in a way 
that would only be a failure on a large scale. 
Certain flowers must be kept away from each 
other in planting, however. It would not do to 
