OCTOBER 169 



Flowers still are blooming everywhere 

 in the garden. There are still beautiful 

 red roses, smelling as sweet as June. 

 Rosa rugosa has only just ceased to flower. 

 A great clump of pale blush anemone 

 japonica at the south end of the broad 

 walk has flowered grandly for some time 

 past. A clump of white ones from the 

 kitchen garden is to be planted there also, 

 since it is plain that they look best in large 

 masses. Had we room I should like to 

 plant blue salvia next to the white ane- 

 mones. The fine blue of this old salvia 

 enriches now the whole garden in almost 

 every part. The colour is said by some to 

 be in a false key, and as such to be out of 

 tune with the more natural greens and 

 blues around, contrasting ill with the lovely 

 tones of nemophila or of the blue daisy 

 or even with the firmament itself ! I know 

 not how this may be, but to me it is 

 nevertheless a magnificent blue nearest, 

 perhaps, in tone to the deep blue of the 

 alpine gentian, and losing beside the 

 gentian only because it lacks its depth of 

 jetty heart. Pure ultramarine must be 



