THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



strangely early season. Ten days ago when 

 groups of Oriental Poppies of pale tones were in 

 full bloom four things contributed to form delight- 

 ful backgrounds for these brilliant flowers: the 

 four arbor-vitse in the midst of the garden, the 

 four globes of box, the smooth, clipped hedge of 

 Privet ibota, and clouds of Valerian officinalis. A 

 garden designed to be at its best for a period of 

 ten days of early summer could not be more dar- 

 ingly splendid than if made up of these two flow- 

 ers, with clean-cut backgrounds of green. True, 

 near the Valerians here were blooming some of 

 the fine apricot-colored aquilegias from seed from 

 Warley Place, but these, while they enhanced the 

 picture, were not needed by it. To-day the Pop- 

 pies are but dusky-topped seed-vessels, the Colum- 

 bines have flown; but the Valerian persists. It 

 is in great mounds of delicate bloom. Below 

 it pale-pink rambler roses, TausendscJion^ have 

 opened dozens of soft flowers and a totally new 

 effect is seen; as pretty a garden picture as one 

 could fancy for the month of June. The idea of 

 coupling Valerian and Roses came to me from the 

 garden of Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Ryerson, of 

 Lake Forest. Here, sitting on the little brick 

 platform too, I see between two spires pf this 

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