GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



lavender bloom; beyond the petunias and above 

 all these rises a rose-pink phlox, also flowering for 

 the second time; and in a bed farther away, lifting 

 the gaze to Buddleias and Aconites in kingly color. 

 Certainly there has not been before me in this 

 garden a softer effect of flowers and foliage than 

 the one on this September evening. Buddleia, 

 very low and straggling, throws its bamboo-like 

 leaves out from a central root. This foliage is of 

 the softest gray-green; beside it falls a cascade of 

 Elymus arejiarius, adding a bluer tone. All these 

 soft gray-blues are shot through by two or three 

 stout zinnia plants in full bloom and the color of 

 these double flowers shading as they do from 

 pinkish cream to a soft yet deep old rose at the 

 outer and lower edges of those domes of petals, is 

 supremely lovely with the foliage encircling it. 

 WTiat a provision are such sights as these against 

 that time 



'When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang 

 Upon those boughs which shake against the cold." 



As, on rereading them, I think over these notes, 

 there comes to mind a paragraph from "Studies 

 in Gardening" which seems to set forth better 

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