THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



(very late blooming this year) below it with 

 Sutton's pale primrose Sunflower aspiring toward 

 it, with the ubiquitous flaming Zinnia kneeling at 

 its feet, and I say to myself here is a garden sub- 

 ject which may properly be called lordly, yet in 

 its color, which harmonizes with all, conflicts with 

 none, it is a gentle occupant of the border. 



There is a practical use of the "neat and 

 twiggy" Salvia v. nemorosa. It makes the per- 

 fect support in late August and September for 

 the long, sticky branches of purple petunias. 

 These, with a slender stake or two set into the 

 Salvia, mount the green boughs of the sage, below 

 which is a velvety planting of Stachys. This in 

 turn has before it two plants of the little new 

 Mignon Dahlia, whose inch-and-a-half-wide flowers 

 shine out like stars against the rest. The aconites 

 are yet to appear. Salvia azurea just commencing. 



It is one of those days known to all gardeners as 

 a "growing" day. The atmosphere is almost as 

 moist as the ground and the sun is intensely hot. 

 And now on the threshold of autumn I begin to 

 think of what is yet to bloom. Here are orange 

 zinnias of unparalleled brilliance, from Truffaut's 

 seed; here is a clear, pale-yellow calendula which 

 ties the orange to the other hues in an easy way. 

 Quantities of white Balsams are blooming on tall 

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