THE GARDEN AT ORCHARD HOUSE 



mauves and pinks, a touch of a deep rich almost 

 magenta phlox gave meaning to the whole. Here 

 you have very pale pink merging through mauves 

 and lavenders into deep purple, a range of color 

 intensiiSed, yet brought into harmony, by the 

 difference in texture of both flowers and foliage. 

 Without the gray of the Stachys and Salvia much 

 of the ethereal quality of the planting would be 

 lost. 



The same amaryllis with echinops in the back- 

 ground, phlox Antonin Mercie, Mme, Paul Dutrie, 

 and Elizabeth Campbell, and the roselike flowers 

 of one of Sutton's Camellia-flowered balsams as 

 foreground, is seen against the varying blue and 

 gray-greens of Lonicera and Abies concolor. 



Another combination of Mrs. King's favorite 

 blue-greens and pale-pinks, showing a particularly 

 good variety of form, was a shaggy rose-colored 

 poppy, with its decorative seed-pods, sweet lav- 

 ender with stiff silvery foliage, fleshy Sedum spec- 

 tabile, not quite in bloom, Buddleia with darker 

 foliage of the same tone, and, used just where an 

 accent was needed, the blue lyme grass, Elymus 

 arenarius. This planting was near the edge of the 

 garden overshadowed by apple-trees. 



For those who love the yellows and bronzes 

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