SPRING FLOWER BORDER 



a good spring picture, the tulips to be Reverend 

 H. Ewbank, Bleu Celeste, Morales, and a very 

 few white ones, such as Innocence or La Candeur. 

 Another plan is to plant well in front of that 

 grand tulip Flava the beautiful lavender Scilla 

 campanulata Excelsior; and between this and the 

 tulip the wonderful mauve iris of about fifteen 

 inches' height, Mrs. Alan Gray. There would be 

 a sight whose loveliness the "scant gray meshes 

 of words" could never catch and show. A fine 

 delicacy of effect this — palest primrose tulip, 

 blue-lavender scilla, and pinkish lavender in the 

 iris blooms. 



A wondrous new all-yellow iris in the Germanica 

 tribe, named by its originator for Miss C. P. Sher- 

 win, is treasure-trove for the June garden. Aqui- 

 Icgia chrysantha in connection w^ith this iris, or 

 groups of the latter planted below the perfect 

 sprays of that perfect rose known as spinosissima, 

 or, for a livelier picture, the new iris before the 

 vivid blue of the anchusa — beauty could not fail 

 the gardener here. 



The " hly-flowered " tulips just announced from 

 Holland and never yet shown in America will cre- 

 ate great interest here. Sirene, Adonis, Argo, mar- 

 vellous tones of satiny rose, rich rose, golden yel- 

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