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A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

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Perennials for Different Purposes: Lilium

Aconitum fischeri Monkshood Aconitum napellus Monkshood Gladiolus (in variety) Sword Flower Hyacinthus candicans Summer Hyacinth Kniphofia pfitzeri Red-hot Poker Plant Liatris (in variety) Blazing Star Lilium (See List No. XXXIII-F) Lily Physostegia virginiana False Dragon Head H. PERENNIALS FOR GOOD BLOOMING COMBINATIONS. The following group contains interesting combinations of perennials which, if planted together, will produce in each case a pleasing colour effect. The perennial garden is valuable for two effects: either for a succession of bloom, or for interesting colour combinations of those flowers which bloom at the same time. The following is an endeavour to provide such combinations:* I. Rosa foetida harisoni and Aquilegia caerulea, blue. 2.

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