10 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



nots as companions: either pink tulips and the myosotis, or 

 yellow tulips with the same flower. Occasionally, and with great 

 care in their choice and disposition, I should use the rose and 

 yellow both with the little blue myosotis, but it is safer not to do 

 this until the bulbs are familiar and their colors known. Since 

 there are almost a hundred named early tulips to be had, it 

 will be seen that I have skirted the subject by mentioning half 

 a dozen. If I shall have tempted someone in this direction I 

 will leave the rest, with great ease of mind, to himself and his 

 bulb list. 



Double tulips have their own interest, but beware of Yellow 

 Rose, of a wondrous yellow truly, but weak-stemmed and only 

 to be used where other foliage abounds as a support. Tea-rose 

 or Safrano is delightful in its pinkish-yellow color, and this with 

 Myosotis makes a picture unforgetable. Bleu Celeste is a 

 superb upright flower of moderately deep violet. This also we 

 use above the forget-me-not for color and form as well; for the 

 loose rosette of the flower stands upon a straight stalk. Bleu 

 Celeste is not obtainable everywhere, but it is worth a search. 

 Miss Jekyll has grown it in her garden in England and it was 

 from her delightful books that it became known to me. It is a 

 double late tulip. Count of Leicester in this group gives a 

 magnificent effect of orange either for cutting or for out-of- 

 door use. 



If it is an excitement to dwell on these early single and double 

 tulips, what are one's feelings as the great Darwin and Cottage 

 groups come to mind? While it is true that these magnificent 

 flowers are now generally known to our people through private 

 and public gardens, the choicer uses of them, their best placings 

 and groupings, are not known. And it is here that the amateur 

 has his opportunity. The great oblong of Darwin tulips Clara 

 Butt, stretching monotonously along a public gravel-walk, sue- 



