GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



flowers of warm rose, is before me in a slender 

 glass vase; its companion four or five sprays of 

 the cool lavender aster. Every one who enters the 

 room exclaims over the beauty of these two flow- 

 ers together, and the light grace, the fascinating 

 intermingling of the leafy green sprays of the 

 Clarkia with the leafless ones of the aster with its 

 starry flowers — the lightness, the beauty of color, 

 of this association are truly most uncommon. In 

 the borders Helianthiis orgyalis is blooming nobly 

 on six and seven foot stalks with green Peony 

 plants at its feet. At a distance from this brilliant 

 spectacle in yellow, tall New England asters waste 

 their rich purple color without the foil of a con- 

 trasting hue. AMien these asters shall have 

 bloomed we plan to move them where they so 

 evidently belong — before the helianthus, which 

 now seems to me almost beckoning to its purple 

 contemporaries to come to its side. 



As it is more delicate in color and form than al- 

 most any other August flower, so the hardy Ama- 

 ryllis {Lycoris squamigera) is more dreadful in de- 

 cay than many others of its strange companions. 

 The notice of its passing should always have as 

 preface the word "suddenly." At one moment 

 one looks down upon a whorl of these beautiful 

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