CHOICE OF FLOWERS 



the latter discordant with the others, but right 

 enough for neighboring the geranium, the salvia 

 and some of the cannas. More dehcate, more 

 charming than the strong-hued blossoms, is the 

 salpiglossis, with its trumpets of buff and brown- 

 pink, and the scabiosa, or mourning-bride, which 

 puts up heads suggestive of a chrysanthemum, 

 or of an impossible cross between that and the 

 bachelor's button. It occurs in white, yellow, 

 purple and a so-called black, which is really a 

 deep purple-crimson. In shape a kinship will be 

 found to this flower in the gaillardia, a hand- 

 some and neglected species which likes the sun 

 and a sandy soil. The bachelor's button, adopted 

 by the German Emperor as his personal flower^ 

 and of soft blue, white, pink and purple, is agree* 

 able in borders and masses. 



The heliotrope and mignonette are entitled 

 to a place in the garden because of the fragrance 

 they give to it, but they make no such show as 

 do the verbena, the stock, the sweet-william, 

 the four-o'clock, the linum, the painted-daisy, or 

 even the fuzzy little ageratum, and in consider- 

 ing these plants of woolly texture we are not to 

 forget the uses of love-lies-bleeding, with its 

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