INTRODUCTION 
This Booklet is the sixth of the series and deals with 
ten flowering herbaceous plants. 
Notes on the structure of flow ers and fruits will be found 
in Nos. i and 2. 
To the gardener an herbaceous plant is a non-woody 
perennial which dies to the ground each year and puts up 
fresh flowering shoots each season. Most of those included 
in this booklet are of this type, but in Malaya they do not 
behave as they would do in their native countries. They 
require to be lifted, divided and transplanted when the 
first flowering is over, and this process may have to be 
repeated three or four times a year, when it provides the 
stimulus to renewed flowering which is given elsewhere by 
seasonal changes. 
Making good herbaceous beds and borders is perhaps the 
most difficult part of the art of gardening in Malaya. There 
are comparatively few suitable plants available and constant 
care and frequent replanting is needed to keep up a good 
show of colour. Beds should have good drainage and the soil 
kept well worked and manured. 
Many of the plants described here are often grown as 
pot plants and then the usual burnt earth methods are 
satisfactory. 
M. R. HENDERSON 
Dir&tor, Botanic Gardens 
1 9 53 Singapore 
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