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here the framework for lovely spring and summer pictures. 

 In the wide border against the wall higher hollyhocks should 

 rise, with pale yellow summer chrysanthemums at their feet, 

 irises to precede them in bloom, and phloxes and hardy asters 

 to follow. Tall plants require wide walks; do we often think of 

 that? To the right of this walk should be a border two or three 

 feet wide of low flowers, nothing taller than an iris, and plenty 

 of lovely annuals such as the buff Zinnia Isabellina, Phlox 

 Dnimmondii Chamois Rose, a few pink geraniums, some of the 

 pure violet petunias, and always and ever as much white and 

 gray as you can put in, such as pinks, Stachys lanattty white 

 gladioli, hardy gj-psophila, peonies. Then of a summer's eve- 

 ning, how delicious would it be to walk between your flowers 

 to your tree, there to sit in the cool of the day, and see your 

 little garden that — working with greater forces than yourself 

 — you have made. 



And now for a few suggestions as to plant-groups for color 

 effect. These shall be taken mainly from the experience of 

 others, but from sources which are entirely to be relied upon. 

 While the gladiolus, strictly s])eaking, is not a perennial, its 

 use is so bound up with that of hardy plants that it almost falls 

 into their category. Therefore for our present piu-pose let us 

 consider it as belonging to the perennial group; and here are 

 some good arrangements used by a fine grower of the flower : — 



Plant purple and gold-colored gladioli with the same tones of 

 Salpiglossis. A magnificent new violet gladiolus was seen at 

 the show of the American Gladiolus Society at Kalamazoo in 

 1922, a seedling of Vaughan's, like Baron Hulot but twice the 

 size of that purple beauty. This is now known, I think, as 

 the Sovereign. In the garden of the grower mentioned in a 

 former paragraph, below the Gladioli and Salpiglossis, "at the 

 base and grown together to give added beauty were carpets of 



