COMPANION CROPS 



eleganSy will be noted throughout the garden, and 

 just here may be recalled that delightful and sug- 

 gestive article by Mr. Wilhelm Miller in "The 

 Garden Magazine" for September, 1909, advo- 

 cating the use of flowers with delicate foliage and 

 tiny blossoms as aids to lightness of garden ef- 

 fects, not to mention the new varieties of such 

 flowers mentioned in the article, Crambe orientalisy 

 Rodgersia, and various unfamiliar spireas. 



There is a whiter gypsophila; there is a grayer 

 as well. The former is the variety ^ore pleno, the 

 latter the ordinary paniculata. They are both 

 tremendous acquisitions to the garden, as their 

 cloudlike masses of bloom give a wonderfully 

 soft look to any body of flowers, besides making 

 charming settings for flowers of larger and more 

 distinct form, as in cut (page 28), where Shasta 

 daisy Alaska is grown against the double gypso- 

 phila. Lilium longiflorum is a companion crop of 

 gypsophila, and I am much given to planting this 

 low-growing lily below and among the gray soft- 

 ness of the other. In bloom when the garden was 

 a blaze of color in midsummer were these — or, pos- 

 sibly, it is fairer to say, "Among those present": 

 Delphinium, both the tall Belladonna and one of 

 a lovely blue, Cantab by name, best of all lark- 

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