Delphin- Persimmon 



iums Queen Alexandra Y Clear pale blue with a white eye. 



Celeste 



Lord Kitchener ) 



v ^ -JL ( Rather fuller in tone. 



Yvette Guiwert ) 



Chatterton \ 



Voltaire > All pure French blue. 



Henderson ) 



\ Purple 

 ) 



blue. 



iniums 



In the Wild Garden, Delphiniums are beautiful when 

 grouped with white Willow Herb, Foxgloves, and any of the 

 white Campanulas that may be out at the same time, or they 

 may be massed against the creamy plumes of Spirtza aricefolia, 

 or the towering heads of Crambe cordifolia and its multitudes of 

 tiny white flowers. They form too a delightful picture rising 

 from a tangle of Wild Roses, or any delicate pink Roses, such 

 as Dawn, Euphrosyne^ or Rene Andre. For herbaceous borders 

 they are quite invaluable. They should be grouped above all 

 with Lilies the white Madonna, the yellow Colchicum, the 

 orange Croceum, the more orange-red Pardalinum, and the buff 

 Testaceum. They look magnificent, too, against white Cluster 

 Roses, or standing in a bed above the creamy flowers of Gloire 

 Lyonnaise, whose boughs should be pegged down between 

 them. 



Flowers of a warm cream tint look even better than white 

 near blue, particularly the warm shade of Escholtzia, but 

 flowers of this colour are rare. It is extraordinary how well 

 some purple and mauve blossoms blend with clear blue ones. 



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