. My garden in summer . rably withthe lilacs of Erigerons, the light yellows of Anthemis, andthe Heleniums and Helianthuses, and blends well withorange shades. It is somewhat similar to the brown redforms of Coreopsis Drummondii, of which I always like tohave a good row somewhere in kitchen garden ground forcutting freely, for the flat flowers are so large and butter-fly-like in poise on the thin stepis. But Coreopsis is afussy thing to cut and arrange, owing to the thin stemsand the many one wants and the tangles they get into,for unless you mow down a whole tuft at a time theflower-heads are
. My garden in summer . rably withthe lilacs of Erigerons, the light yellows of Anthemis, andthe Heleniums and Helianthuses, and blends well withorange shades. It is somewhat similar to the brown redforms of Coreopsis Drummondii, of which I always like tohave a good row somewhere in kitchen garden ground forcutting freely, for the flat flowers are so large and butter-fly-like in poise on the thin stepis. But Coreopsis is afussy thing to cut and arrange, owing to the thin stemsand the many one wants and the tangles they get into,for unless you mow down a whole tuft at a time theflower-heads are sure to get interlocked, and almost in-variably it is the one belonging to the cut stem that comesoff when you pull. Now Helenium cupreum makes nobother of this sort, and three or four of its jolly stoutstems provide a mass of flowers for a good-sized vase. Chrysanthemum maximum is not very successful as acut flower ; first it is hard to get long stems when thefirst flowers open without cutting many buds and making 242. V Hi ^ liruinimuidil, ;l ; (See p. 2a2.~) Daisies sad gaps, then they flag and faint too often to be reliable,but in the border they are very fine. I have grouped mostof the varieties I grow at one end of the large herbaceousbed, where, looking across the lawn by the house andunder the Deodar, one sees them in a mass with themeadows, the turn of the river, and the distant woods fortheir background, and with the late afternoon sun catch-ing them they are a great joy to me. My favourite of allthe forms is vomerense, which came from Herr Sprengerof Naples, and gets its name from his garden at Gumbleton first drew my attention to its charms inhis garden at Belgrove, and sent me a division from hisplant the following Spring. It is a tall, long-stemmedvariety, not so large as to become coarse, and the rayflorets have a charming curve, a rise and fall that doesaway with the stiffness I dislike in some other Hen
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