THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



and among it is lightly, brightly blooming Phlox 

 drummondii Chamois Rose, while the whole little 

 gay flower embroidery lies on a groundwork of 

 young Myosotis foliage from seeds sown in July 

 for next May's beauty with tulips. Ageratum 

 fraseri I got as plants from Richard Vincent and 

 set them out in early June; at the same time we 

 sowed two rows of the phlox seed back of the 

 ageratum, and almost immediately, as it seemed 

 to me, the two were in bloom and a small but 

 dazzling surprise resulted. For as one turns into 

 this walk, through a wooden arch hung with roses, 

 he looks for no flowers within the green walls of 

 hedge, and the fifteen or twenty feet of charming 

 pink and lavender color provoke exclamations of 

 pleasure. 



In that still soft radiance of September, sitting 

 below the two pippin-trees on the small brick 

 platform, I see before my delighted eye color un- 

 speakably fresh and brilliant. Due to delayed 

 frosts, on September 19, as I write there is across 

 the garden a rich effect of color made up of these 

 flowers: Stachys lanata, first and lowest; violet pe- 

 tunias, above this, held up by the green-foliaged 

 stems of Salvia virgata nemorosa; to the left a 

 lovely flame-colored zinnia; back of that achillea 

 in second bloom. Statice Silver Cloud is in fine 

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