COMPANION CROPS 



among the arabis and making the loveliest imag- 

 inable spring bouquet. The single arabis I have 

 now forsworn in favor of the new double variety, 

 which is far more effective — like a tiny white 

 stock without the stock's stiffness of habit — and 

 quite as easy to grow and maintain. 



In the blossomy photograph, facing page 48, are 

 found foi'.r or five companion crops of flowers, 

 though that was a peculiar season in which this 

 picture was made, when syringas bloomed with 

 Canterbury bells ! Here peonies and Canterbury 

 bells make up the bulk of bloom, some young 

 syringa bushes showing white back of them, and 

 sweetbrier covered with fragrant pink to the 

 right. Sweet-wilHams and pinks may be found 

 in the foreground with rich rose pyrethrum, the 

 sweet-williams of a dark rose-red, in perfect har- 

 mony with all the paler pinks near and beyond 

 them. I may say here that, like most amateurs, 

 I have a favorite color in flowers — the pink of 

 Drummond phlox, Chamois Rose, or, in deeper 

 tones, of sweet-wiUiam Sutton's Pink Beauty, or 

 the rosy-stock-flowered larkspur. When I say that 

 such and such a flower is of a good warm pink, it 

 is to the tones of one or the other of these that I 

 would refer. 



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