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Thalictrum aquilegifolium (the columbine¬ 
leaved meadow rue).—Purplish, i to 3 feet, 
with pretty fern-like foliage. 
Tritoma or Kniphofia, (red-hot pokers, or 
flame flowers).— Several varieties ( Avaria is a 
common kind), 3 or 4 feet. Scarlet and yellow 
flowers, late summer and autumn. 
Trollhis (globe flower), Eropceus, Asiaticus, 
or Napellifolius. —1 to 2 feet high, flowers like 
round balls either yellow or orange. 
The small beds and the front of the borders 
must now be thought of. The following is a 
list of summer flowering hardy perennial plants, 
but unlike those on the last list they are low- 
growing, and would not take care of themselves 
in a wild garden unless they were planted in a 
rockery or Alpine garden, where they would do 
very well. But any good garden soil will suit 
them, and they would make a nice edge to a 
border where some of the taller perennials were 
growing at the back, or could be grown in 
small beds, and would make a striking contrast 
from the violas, carnations, or other things you 
may be advised to plant in some of the beds. 
Campanulas (harebells).— Alpina, deep blue; 
carpatica , blue ; turbinata, large dark - blue 
flowers on a small-sized plant; and many 
other varieties. 
