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different growths of small combs, enormous 
flowers can be obtained on dwarf plants. 
The soil should be a sandy loam with good 
old manure feeding, and plenty of water. 
They make very showy pot plants. 
CAMPANULA (bellflower).—The Can- 
terbury Bell deserves to be raised from the 
somewhat common level to which many 
gardeners assign it. By a good many it is 
thought that this flower lacks character, and 
is straggley in growth. This may be so, but 
the white persicifolia is a delicate-looking 
bloom, and the striped red Punctata is a good 
yariety. The cup and saucer Calycanthema 
is a large flowering variety well worth culti- 
vating, while the other extreme miniature 
Garganica makes an effective basket plant of 
graceful trailing habit. 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
AUGUST I, 1902. 
Applied to the old English Larkspur, which 
the emigrants tc Australia in early days 
brought with them, no doubt to make them 
feel at home in their -new surroundings. 
The Larkspurs grew like weeds, and it was 
a rarity to find a cottage garden without this 
representative of the old land. Now the 
common Larkspur has gone out of homely 
fashion, and the highly-improved Delphinium 
takes its place. And rightly, too, for there 
are few flowers to compare with it. A 
spike of lovely deep or light blue, 
some eighteen inches in length, is a bloom 
that no eyecan miss. A clump of them any- 
where in the garden, a row, or a single 
specimen, will immediately arrest attention. 
DIGITALIS (Foxglove, from digitale, a 
finger-stall, from the shape of the flower). 
Carniatum 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS (from  chrysos, 
gold, and anthos, aflower.) The annual Chry- 
sauthemum grown from seeds is a tricolor 
bloomer, gorgeous in a plot, and looks very 
fine as a background to edgings. Very suit- 
able for summer flowering and serviceable 
-for cuttings. The subject of our illustration 
is very appropriately named carniatum 
chameleon. 
COSMOS (kosmos, beautiful).—This ex- 
tremely showy and graceful plant became 
fashionable in Australia a few years ago. 
The delicate tints of the flowers‘in varying 
hues are extremely pretty, and the prolific 
carrying capacity of the tall growths have a 
striking effect anywhere.in the garden on the 
hottest days of summer. The single blooms, 
set in the light feathery foliage, are set off to 
the best advantage. They grow well under 
almost any conditions and in any soil. 
DELPHINIUM (from delphin, a dolphin, 
the spur supposed to resemble a dolphin’s 
head). The hackneyed phrase, “common 
or garden sorts,” now used in every-day 
speech to indicate something below standard, 
originated from descriptions of “flowers in 
show prize catalogues. This designation is 
Chameleon. 
This is another of the old English importa- 
tions to Australia. Foxgloves have been 
growing in Australian gardens, one would 
think, ever since the first wattle-and-dab hut 
was erected. We see the same Foxgloves, 
too, year after year with unerring regularity. 
They are popular, however common, because 
of their showy spikes of bloom. They 
always look well. Maculata Iveryana is de- 
scribed as a new spotted variety, and as 
such it must be welcomed; while the Yellow 
eanguensis is a good grower for the shrub- 
ery. 
ESCHSCHOLTZIA.—This flower with 
such an unwieldy name, given after a doctor- 
botanist of the same name without the ia 
generally finds a place in every garden, de- 
spite its name and unsavoury odour. The 
yellow, orange, and red blooms are pretty 
and the foliage of sage green hue is a relief 
from the everlasting green of the bulk of 
flowers. They are rapid spreaders from 
their own prolific and peculiar-looking seed 
vessels ; but the sharp, shiny spade can 
easily remedy this. 
LINUM (Flax, from linon, flax), When 
making an edging to the flower bed, plant 
~ some of the 
Linum Grandiflorum (scarlet) in a row 
behind Sweet Alyssum (white), and most 
visitors to the garden will be surprised at 
the effect. Linum has beautiful fresh-green 
graceful little foliage, and as a setting to the 
white blooms of Alyssum the effect is de- 
lightful. ‘Then when the rich scarlet blooms 
appear another even prettier effect is given. 
Other colours are shades of yellow and blue. 
MARIGOLD (Calendula officinalis, from 
callendae, the first day of the month). 
African Marigold, tagetes erecta; French 
Marigold, tagetes patula ; Great Cape Mari- 
gold, calendula hybrida. This flower is one 
of the “‘has beens” in Australian gardening, 
because the common variety became prac- 
tically weeds. A number of gardeners, how- 
ever, were friends to the species, and occa- 
sionally one of these friends will take you 
round his garden, and surprise you with 
most beautiful blooms of 
Marigolds that one could wish to see. The 
colours vary from straw to brick-red, and 
some of the tipped and striped petals of the 
double varieties are splendid blooms. The 
Cape Marigold or Dandelion has a bad name 
here. The pollen is supposed to distribute 
germs or set up feverish irritation, similar 
to what is known as hay-fever. Be this as 
it may, a field of Dandelions on a bright 
summer morning, with its glinting golden- 
yellow, is a sight for the esthete to dwell 
upon. 
MYOSOTIS (Forget me-not, from mus, a 
mouse, and otis, an ear; resemblance of the 
leaves.) This pretty little perennial, about 
which the sentiments of lovers linger, and 
the poets sing, is one of the daintiest flowers 
for grouping, and very choice for rockeries, 
It is such a universal favourite that nothing 
further need be remarked. 
PORTULACA.—Nine times out of ten 
the amateur gardener, and very frequently 
even seedmen’s catalogues spell this name~ 
with two c’s, which is incorrect. ‘This error 
can be easily avoided if the derivation of 
the name is borne in mind, viz., from porto, 
to carry, and lac, milk—referring to the 
milky juice of the plant. This is one of the 
very best of our sammer bloomers, gay and 
cheerful looking while everything else in 
the garden may be burnt up with the sun. 
One writer describes it as surpassing all 
other outdoor plants in brilliance, delicacy, 
diversity, and beauty of colour, Both the 
single and double varieties are charming. 
It is an introduction from Chili and Southern 
Europe principally. 
POLYANTHUS is a race of Primulas 
derived from a cross between the Primrose 
and the Cowslip. They require sheltered 
positions. ‘Their pretty foliage and dwarf 
habits make them favoured for edgings, and 
also as pot plants for the shadehouse 
PETUNIA (from petun, the Brazilian 
name for tobacco). No garden in Australia 
need be, or really should be, without 
Petunias, and seldom out of bloom from 
January to December. As bedding plants 
for beauty and display they take the palm, 
No flowers give greater satisfaction, and with 
very little care. They can be grown from 
seeds (which is the commonest method of 
raising) cuttings of the points of shoots, or 
small side shoots. Here is a little list that 
will give satisfaction to the most ardent ad- 
