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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
Then the yellowing foliage of the one is hidden 
behind the oncoming freshness of the other. 
Phlox should always be planted towards the 
front of the border, as they usefully hide 
delphiniums or anchusas when over. Paeonies 
need to have something, either in the nature 
of an annual like mallow, sown with them, or 
gypsophila, which will branch out and grow 
right over any flowers past their best. 
Hollyhocks have been omitted from the list 
on account of the extreme difficulty found in 
growing them free from the disease which 
attacks them, and which renders them so un- 
sightly. Curiously enough, they seem to be 
perfectly healthy when growing in some road- 
way garden, exposed to all the white dust 
rising in clouds from the highway. Possibly 
the dust has some purifying effect on the disease, 
especially if the roads are limestone. Should 
it be found, however, that they do succeed with 
anyone, they are the greatest addition to a 
border or small garden, something in the rigid 
lines of their spires of bloom, and the tender 
grey-green woolly texture of stalks and buds 
being unlike any other flower (unless the 
mullein be counted as a poor relation), and which 
lends a touch of distinction wherever seen, 
whether it be against the whitewashed wall of an 
