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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
camassias are much neglected and deserve to 
be widely planted. The slender spikes of 
camassia are from 3 to 4 feet high, studded 
throughout their length with starlike flowers 
1 to 2 inches across, in pale blue, white, red, 
and intense blue colourings, and resemble 
eremuri though in miniature. They come 
from British Columbia, where vast plains and 
fields are spangled with them rising from the 
grass in May and June. They do not object 
to a damp place, which is always a comfort in 
this climate. Then come a tribe of anemones. 
The early blanda, sylvestris, and Robinson 
are not included, as they do so much better in 
the grass ; but St Brigid, coronaria, and fulgens, 
the scarlet windflower from the Eastern Empire, 
are very showy in spring, and like a rich soil 
with some old mortar-rubble added. Ranun- 
culus, Turban and Persian, are good at the 
end of May ; and then come the lilies, wanting 
a cool soil certainly, but otherwise most 
accommodating in a border, a regular pro- 
cession, from gaudy orange croceum, scarlet 
martagon, and white candidum or Madonna, 
to speciosum, white, red, and pink, giant 
auratum, and flaunting tiger lilies. These 
do well if undisturbed from year to year. 
Auratum, planted on gravel subsoil, and backed 
