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How to Make a Flower Garden 



We put blue larkspurs near white lilies and fancy the border is never 

 lovelier than in lily time, while the blue and the white hold sway there. 

 And we find them far more interesting to "Hve up to" than the choicest of 

 blue-and-white china. Yellow, as a harmoniser, offers itself on every side. 

 It is necessary to guard against an over-supply. The advent among us of the 

 popular golden glow has brought much cheer into the garden w^orld, but its 

 restless energy and push fill the owner of a moderate-sized border with 



Shortia galacifolia, a rare and exquisite perennial discovered in 1788 and then lost for nearly one hundred years 



Utter dismay. (3ne can believe it would become as lavishly in evidence as 

 the sunshine if it were given its own way. But there comes a time, and 

 that speedily, when its advance in the border must be checked, and new 

 quarters fotmd for the adventurous offshoots. Forced to expedients, we 

 tried hitching a row of them to the barn by means of staples driven into the 

 clapboards. This does aw-ay with the tall, strong stakes these rudbeckias 

 demand in the garden because of their inordinate ambition to get up, as well 

 as on, in the world. Apparently, the new situation suits them, and they 



