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THE GARDEN BLUEBOOK 



from fungus disease. This gives us the composition in blue, violet, and 

 gold, indicated by the sketch for October, and few gardens can show a 

 better display at a time when frost is in the air. 



Next for September. The chart shows us that of those plants al- 

 ready located, the Asters will be blooming throughout this month, while 

 the Delphinium will give its second crop in the first half and the Chrysan- 

 themums will come into bloom toward the latter half of the month; there- 

 fore we will draw these in, marking the Asters strongly in elevation and 



the others more lightly. Obviously this is not enough for our September 

 picture, so to replace the gold provided in October by the Chrysanthe- 

 mums we will put in a tall yellow clump between the Delphinium and 

 the evergreen. Running down the chart under the heading September, 

 we find No. i6, Helenium autumnale,'var. superbus. This will do 

 admirably, and to give a dash of emphasis, we will put in front a couple 

 of bulbs of No. 5, Lilium Henryi, through whose tall orange pyramids of 



