9S 
HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
shoots can be dibbled in and fresh plants 
secured. In contradistinction to this, lilies 
should never have the stalk pulled out. It 
should be cut off half-way down and left, 
otherwise the rain may find its way into the 
heart of the bulb and destroy it. This applies 
also to lemon verbena when planted out. 
A very simple arrangement for a small 
square garden is to divide it into four, with 
paths across. The four plots are of grass, with 
4 or 5 feet ‘borders round each of them, and 
the outer paths are all bordered with old apple 
trees, trained on espaliers long ago, but now 
standing hoary and gnarled and stiff with age, 
and needing no support. These borders with 
the apple trees are gay with every variety of 
perennial and biennial plant, foxgloves, Canter- 
bury bells, coreopsis, gaillardias, lupins, poppies, 
and snapdragons, grown in mixture and with- 
out regard to colour, while the remaining 
borders are each devoted to the cultivation of 
one kind of flower. In one grow campanulas 
of all sorts, white, mauve, and purple, short 
and tall. In another delphiniums in every 
shade of blue, including the yellow species and 
the new white, also the crimson species. 
In a shady border, matching the campanula 
border, which was also in shade, are all the 
