28 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



stands a single plant of phlox, A Mercie, in full lavender beauty, 

 and this by chance has for its neighbor a line (for trial) of various 

 kinds of Hemerocallis, of which Thunbergii and Kwanso are in 

 bloom. The yellows of these lilies, light and dark, are nice 

 beyond and with the phlox. 



Looking down one of the little grassy aisles of the formal 

 garden, I see the buds, flowers, and seed pods of my own beauty 

 of a rose-pink poppy never so tall and fine as this year. Very 

 beautiful it is thrusting its head through gypsophilas — lovely 

 below Delphinium Moerheimii, with white petunias and the little 

 viola known as Johnny-jump-up below these. Nothing however 

 in the garden, this month, has pleased me more than a chance 

 association of delphinium Belladonna, which by a special horti- 

 cultural dispensation has held over its bloom well into the time 

 of Phlox decussata. There it stands in all its pale beauty, above 

 the white rounds of Tapis Blanc and with the lavender of E. 

 Danzanvilliers back of it. Of little use it is to plan this grouping; 

 the delphinium normally is far too early for the phlox. But I 

 rejoice in this enchanting color-grouping of flowers as it stands 

 here. 



The long shadows fall on the fresh-clipped breadths of hedge; 

 on the smooth squares of grass; on slim white Regal lilies, rising 

 above snowy mounds of phlox; on the little brown-tipped 

 brushes of sea-lavender about to bloom; on the low cushions of 

 Dianthus cosspitosa and Heuchera's rich foliage. A late and 

 sleepy bee weighs down a dome of lavender phlox; the last birds 

 twitter, and soon color will leave the garden, and the fragrance 

 of lilies, of heliotrope, of phloxes, take its place. 



