GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



stems; indeed, they are carpeting the grass below 

 them with the white of their fallen flowers. Physo- 

 stegia is in full flower, late white phloxes also; 

 Sedum spectabile is just opening those level clusters 

 of its flowers, and Salvia farina cea is lovely with 

 blue-lavender twisting lines of color. Pink mal- 

 lows are everywhere. The glorious white Althea, 

 William R. Smith, is in bloom against Artemisia 

 lactiflora, and the violet Verbena venosa has just 

 opened its first flowers below masses of Elymus 

 arenarius, over which Buddleias are hanging many 

 terminal promises of purple color. Buddleias, as 

 I have said, are yet to come; so also is Wilson's 

 Aconite with its rich violet. Ageratum is thickly 

 strewn along garden edges and so are the hyacinth- 

 flowered, mauve candytuft, the white alyssum, 

 and the delicious Phlox Drummondii Isabellina, 

 violet petunias are making their presence felt, as 

 is also some late-sown purple annual larkspur. 

 The end of this garden this year will be all gold 

 and purple, as a season's end should be. 



Septembers, 1921. 



Gleams of late sunlight bring into bright relief 



against the clipped ramps of green flanking the 



garden-steps a great round cluster of Tausend- 



schon Roses — thirty -four on a stem — rising above 



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