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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
though the owner stoutly asserted that both 
flourished exceedingly well. If his assertion 
is correct, it would be a good way of beautify- 
ing an otherwise wasted border in August and 
September. My own paeony border has an 
edging of saxifrage, and is planted with 
narcissus, while behind is a row of Michaelmas 
daisies divided and replanted each year. When 
the paeony foliage is at its worst, the Michael- 
mas daisies can be staked out to hide it. 
The Moutan, a tree paeony, does not find a 
place here, as it is properly a shrub. 
Snapdragons 
In Sussex, where surely all flowers take on 
brighter tints than in an inland county, was a 
delightful little garden all of snapdragons. It 
had many small beds in the centre (knots 
they were called in Tudor days), and borders 
surrounding it, all filled with these charming, 
old-fashioned flowers. Not the magenta and 
spotted kinds of our childhood, which had 
funny mouths that pretended to bite our fingers 
when pinched surreptitiously by our elders, 
but lovely, tall branching kinds, in all shades 
of colour except blue— sulphur, lemon, orange, 
vermilion, salmon, cherry, pink, blush and 
white, and many dark purples, crimsons. 
