150 FLOWER GARDENING 



a hundred kinds of flowers and yet use only a single 

 accent the daffodil in April, the columbine in 

 May, the rose in June, the larkspur in July, the 

 speciosum lily in August, the Japanese anemone in 

 September or the chrysanthemum in October; one 

 covers the ground sufficiently if it is enough for 

 you. 



It requires no profound knowledge of garden ma- 

 terial to work out these beautiful forms of garden 

 expression ; not infrequently they come without con- 

 scious effort. Blooming season, color, height and 

 habit of growth are the important things to know, 

 after the question as to what plants will do well in 

 a given situation has been decided. 



The blooming season is easily determined. 

 Color is much more difficult. It must be not only 

 decided in tone but unless the blossoms are very 

 large spread so profusely over the plant as to fur- 

 nish solidity of effect. Whether the color is used for 

 harmony, as lavender Canterbury bells with 

 purple ones, or for sheer contrast, as white and 

 pink foxgloves together, matters little, so long as 

 there is no mixture other than the pardonable kind. 

 This is letting, say, a white iris or two stray over 

 into the adjoining colony of purple ones just as 

 if nature had had the ordering of it. While two 

 kinds of one flower, or two kinds of flowers, are a 

 safe rule it is not one to be adhered to rigidly; good 

 taste can always settle that. 



Height is mentioned because even carpeting 

 plants, such as Phlox subulata, may be used in 



