DISPOSITION OF FLOWERS IN PARKS 



Such varieties as Uncle Sam, King Humbert and Richard Wallace, 

 with simple edging of Pennisetum grass or white-leaved Centaurea, 

 are vastly preferable to the beds of speckled-leaved tropical plants 

 in evidence throughout the parks less than a dozen years ago. 



The public generally is found to have a liking for fresh and clear 

 colours such as vermilion red, canary yellow and intense blue or 

 purple, — all of which colours may be obtained in plant bloom and which 

 make effective colour display. There is also a reviving affection for 

 that glowing first emigrant to American soil, — the Red Geranium. One 

 has but to see it in its pride and glory in Holland and throughout the 

 Rhineland, to honour it for all time. May it come more and more into 

 its own in this country, — but given a formal and dignified bearing, 

 free from the insignificance and impertinence of the round flower- 

 bed, which can demean the most royal and rare of floral colour display. 



