MASSING OF DISTINCT SPECIES 169 
without it rain and wind will play havoc with 
the flowers and long stems of the newer 
varieties. 
Rich soil they should have, but sun or shade 
makes no difference to them. 
It must be borne in mind that the garden 
or space of ground given up to them will be 
vacant for some months of the year, except 
for their green growth, and it is an uninterest- 
ing dark green at that. The early varieties 
commence flowering in August, and the bloom 
then from one or other is continuous till 
November ; and in 1912, in early November, 
masses of a late white sort not fully opened 
were picked and brought into the house, 
where they opened and lasted three weeks in 
water. 
Here can be planted out all the “ cast-offs ” 
either not thought good enough for the her- 
baceous border, or the offshoots gained by the 
too rapid increase of the parent plant, which, 
as has been pointed out, must be divided each 
year. 
Here we can have our old favourites of 
the originally wild species — amellus , acris , and 
cordifolius — as well as the newer sorts. Here 
we can have drifts of pink merging into 
crimson by making use of Coombe Fishacre, 
