A Garden in the Suburbs Author:Leslie Williams Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3over this two feet of peat, loam and sand ; and when they arrive, a quantity of Lilium pardalinum will be planted here, with some Trimardeau Pansies, sown last August close by and pricked ... more »out in March, as carpeting. The border here gets a couple of hours' sun, from two to four, and I think these lovely tiger-like Lilies with their spotted yellow, green-tipped blooms, which remind one of that rather misnamed stove plant, Gloriosa superba (which is so much less glorious, being so much smaller than they), ought to do well. The real Tiger Lilies are of all the autumn flowers the most splendid. Deep snow ! and very seasonable, too. Last year everything rushed out all through a. beautiful warm February, and suffered terribly from six weeks of east wind a little later, with the result that my Roses were a miserable first crop. This year I see Clematis Jackmani, both alba and the blue superba, have fat green buds in their joints, all ready to burst and be nipped, for they were foolishly produced quite early in January. So has the Moutan Paeony, which grows in front of the C. alba. Of course it has had severalpinkish plump noses ready all through the late autumn and winter, but during the last week or two it has unfolded them a good deal. It is not planted in the best of situations, for it is in the sunny border, which gets the full benefit of his majesty from the earliest of his uprising, and all the books warn us against planting Paeonies where night-frozen buds and early leaves will be too quickly and fiercely thawed. There is the Lord Suffield Apple tree in the lawn close by, though, and I hope this will be some slight protection, though I feel myself as foolishly sanguine as the Clematis is premature. What a pity it always seems to cut down the summer and autumn- flowering Clematises to the regulation five o...« less