THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



Geranium grandiflorum and the yellow of the 

 Sherwin- Wright Iris not far off, gives variety to 

 the morning or the evening. Below this Cranes- 

 bill or Geranium is a delightful little hardy dian- 

 thus of the most glowing solferino (coBspitosa) ; it 

 is capital in association with the purple Geranium 

 hanging above it. The season is so strange, the 

 bursting into bloom of many flowers at once so un- 

 usual that I am uncertain as to what to do about 

 unwelcome colors, showing out of their time; for 

 instance, here are fat buds of pink dwarf ramblers 

 ready to open below the salmon pink of Poppies 

 and the vivid deeper color of Poppy Cerise Beauty, 

 one of the finest of all of this family of Oriental 

 Poppies. This will never do, but which shall I 

 shear away ? It will be a nice question to decide, 

 and must depend, I believe, on the ultimate use 

 of a cut flower. Valerian is the early white lace 

 flower of our gardens, as Statice is the later lav- 

 ender one. 



In a great group of cut Peonies, such as stands 

 before me now, how difficult it is to choose the 

 loveliest; Milton Hill with its beautifully ar- 

 ranged petals and its lovely shell-pink tint; 

 Heine Hortense even more like the inside of the 

 conch-shell, which all of us held to our ear as chil- 

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