142 A Little Maryland Garden 
venture, some tall white California poppies, 
the Romneya Coulterii, whose seeds were 
sent me from California for a trial in my 
Eastern garden. 
I can look now with pride about the bor- 
ders. Shirley poppies in lovely shades of 
rose and scarlet are blooming in the motley 
peach-tree bed, in company with tiger lilies 
and tigridias and late sweet-williams. There 
are sheets of gold where the coreopsis bend 
forward to catch the sun. Phlox make 
great masses of bloom, crimson, pink, and 
white. Certainly they are fine, abundant 
flowers, rather prosaic with their dusty 
smell, but so richly coloured and tall and 
strong that they are among the best summer 
friends. 
The lower border has really taken on the 
look that I saw in dreams when I planned its 
new aspect a year ago; dashes of scarlet 
under the gold, from geraniums and cardinal 
flowers, just coming into bloom; the rich 
green and orange of dwarf marigolds, rose 
coloured and white phlox, making a back- 
