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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
for a patch of colour and can be bought very 
cheaply, while the new dark-blue and violet 
shades are very beautiful and are now less 
expensive. They can be had in ranges of 
such colours as royal purple, blue, and helio- 
trope shades, and yellows, and many have been 
raised in Canada. Hyacinth candicans is a 
great standby for late borders, and, planted in 
groups of a dozen, their tall green stems with 
pendent white bells (as many as forty on a 
stem) and handsome foliage are most effective. 
They are quite hardy, and quite inexpensive. 
Eremuri, alas ! are quite the reverse, and are 
very tender in most places ; unique in form 
and height, they give a touch of distinction to 
any border, and are in lovely colourings — pink, 
mauve, white, and sulphur yellow, their tall 
spires thickly set for 4 or 5 feet with myriads 
of tiny flowers. Eremurus himalaicus , white, 
and Bungei , pale pink, grow nearly 10 feet 
high. E. Lemon Queen is a new variety of 
later flowering period, and E . Tubergeni , pale 
yellow, is a new cross between E. Bungei and 
E. himalaicus . 
A lovely collection given me by M. Maurice 
de Vilmorin succumbed in two years to the 
damp, in spite of ashes to their roots and all 
precautions. Mr Robinson tells me that if 
