190 HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
sunny place, and a limestone or chalky soil for 
choice, though it will do in almost any soil if 
well drained, and flowers in September and 
October at the same time as Cyclamen euro - 
pceum , with its mass of green and silver leaves 
and hundreds of rose-coloured and lilac flowers, 
some few inches high, which succeed ad- 
mirably planted below the stems of beech 
trees, the smooth grey bark showing them off 
to perfection. 
Helianthus of all sorts and even harpalium 
may be planted here, where they may take up 
room unchidden, and their brilliant yellow 
flowers will light up the whole garden. 
Golden Rod with feathery plumes may be 
planted in quantity, and will grow 5 feet high. 
Even when the flowers are over, the grey 
feathery heads of seed are beautiful. Liatris, 
the Blazing Star or Kansas Gay Feather of 
America, is a bright, rosy purple flower for 
September, and one of the polygonums, P. 
amplexicaule oxphyllum , has sweet-scented and 
beautiful flowers growing in heads of myriads 
of tiny blossoms, flowering from August to 
October, and is most ornamental, with its 
handsome habit of growth and branching 
reddish stems and pointed leaves. 
Heleniums, both striata , the copper-coloured, 
