VARIETY IN PERENNIAL FLOT\^RS 51 



Walter S. Brewster's Lake Forest garden opposite page 50. 

 Waves of these foam-like flowers break here upon their strand 

 of a well-kept grass walk. Iris leaves give capital relief and 

 variety in form ; the fig-leaved hollyhock lifts the eye agreeably 

 and gives rich color to the borders. Reduce this charming pic- 

 ture to its simplest terms, and carry it out upon the little place. 

 The background of shrubs is not difficult to obtain: two or 

 three elms are within the range of most of us; and those ever- 

 changing skies are always ours. 



The place where Lilium superhum once stood in our ground 

 with elder now knows these two things no more. Now the spot 

 is covered with Hemerocallis Florham, out of which rise two 

 fine lilacs, Syringa pubescens, and Syringa reflexa with its mar- 

 velous color-contrast between bud and open flower. A group of 

 young willows encroaches a little on this arrangement, and a 

 birch or two. Would that I might dwell here on the lovely lily 

 so perfect with its pale apricot near Delphinium, Lilium testa- 

 ceum, the Nankeen lily; or upon my great favorite (and every- 

 one's), the bright little Lilium ienuifolium, the coral lily, deep 

 scarlet and so tiny that it is often lost by an affectionate owTier 

 among other plants; upon the lovely speciosum; upon my own 

 (and everyone's) special delight, Lilium regale, which would be 

 my choice if all others but one were barred to me. "Lilies," 

 says IVIr. E. H. Wilson, "are not nearly enough known and 

 grown in American gardens; we sit by and think we have done 

 well if we use five out of the countless numbers we might have 

 for the white or colored beauty of their presence among our 

 other flowers." 



The garden now lies bare; " leaf -picking winds" have done 

 their work, and leaves — tree leaves — have now changed much 

 of the earth surface in our temperate zone from green to brown 



