HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
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the border can be sunny and dry and they will 
appreciate it. 
Nasturtiums do not need a rich soil, as they 
quickly go to leaf instead of flower, and require 
a poor, dry border to be seen at their best. 
The same applies to eschscholzias, statice, 
and portulaca, whose fleshy leaves stand any 
drought. 
In sowing annuals in a herbaceous border, 
some of them are sure to get crowded out, or 
drawn and leggy. Still, they often succeed, 
and fill many a gap. If colour runs riot in the 
border in a pleasant jumble without thought 
(often as effective as anything else) , a good plan 
is to mix some seed of IJnum grandiflorum 
coccinea (a fine crimson), Convolvulus minor and 
linaria , and scatter over the borders anyhow. 
No annuals but Nicotiana really love shade, 
but some will accommodate themselves to it. 
Nicotiana sylvestris is a noble plant of pyramidal 
habit, 6 feet high, with large heads of long 
tubular white flowers, and brilliant green leaves. 
The flowers are open all day, unlike affinis, the 
sweetly scented evening tobacco plant, which 
only opens after sundown, or in deep shade. 
There are various-coloured hybrids in pink and 
red. Nicotiana Sander ce is rose-coloured, and 
there are other hybrids in crimson and purple 
