36 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



A new poppy is Lord Lambourne with wondrous cuttings and 

 fringings — what markings, what silken stamens, hke a silk of 

 heavy pile, a flower of wonder! It is an Oriental poppy, scarlet 

 and black, lately introduced by Perry in England. Also the 

 new sweet pea. Picture, must be noticed. It has just had the 

 award of merit of the National Sweet Pea Society of Great 

 Britain, and is of a creamy-pink color. I am not sure that I 

 like the name "Picture," — this might mean anything, — it is 

 too vague to apply to a flower. But with the wonderful advance 

 made during the last few years in sweet peas in all matters of 

 form, color, substance, and habit, we may be certain that this 

 novelty is worth trial. Picture is a remarkably vigorous grower, 

 and said to stand hard weather with a degree of fortitude un- 

 common to sweet peas. 



Among novelties, though they are now at hand in many 

 gardens, none have excited more interest among growers and 

 amateurs than the hardy pinks from the firm of Allwood in 

 England. Dianthus Allwoodii claims many merits, not the least 

 among them that these flowers are half pink, half carnation. 

 These too are perennials. 



For a good use of a most precious annual flower, com- 

 mend me to that in the garden of Mrs. Carr at Lake Forest 

 near Chicago. An oblong basin or pool lies quietly within 

 another oblong of smooth grass; one end of this space is bounded 

 by the house-terrace, the opposite one by the woods of a deep 

 ravine; on either side are lines of well-clipped dwarf hedges of 

 evergreen of some kind. Three or four feet apart, and between 

 these, lie long breadths of violet color in heliotrope in full bloom. 

 What more than still water, long level lines of green, the low- 

 toned purple of heliotrope, — that stealing fragrance of helio- 

 trope too, — what more than these can give the feeling of 

 serenity which should be the first attribute of a garden? Nothing 



