48 THE BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF THE YEAR 



Beaufort, the pink, delicate and exquisite Mme.Van der Cruyssen, 

 up to the purest white of the Deutsche Perle. 



In the violet tones are Bernard Andre, which is dark violet 

 purple, very large and very double, and Theo. Reimers, a double 

 lilac, which is most dainty and beautiful. A plantation of these 

 two varieties lightened with the Deutsche Perle gives a poem of 

 exquisite color harmony. Against a background of Spring- 

 blossoming shrubs in yellow tones or the deep greens of the ever- 

 green plantings the effect is wonderfully fine and rather more 

 unusual than the combinations generally seen of masses of pinks 

 and reds with white. These, however, are justly the pride of 

 our southern gardens. Many of these shrubs, in their evergreen 

 loveliness, have attained a height of from twenty to thirty feet. 

 Hundreds of visitors go each year to see the magnificent specimens 

 in Magnolia Gardens at Charleston, which are known far and 

 wide for their beauty. The gardens in New Orleans and Mobile, 

 Augusta and Savannah, and other southern cities, are filled with 

 these fragrant and handsome plants. They must be seen to be 

 appreciated. 



For masses among the evergreen shrubbery the Azalea Hino- 

 digiri is a valuable acquisition. It is a Japanese Azalea, hardy, 

 blooming for quite a long period and with flowers of the brightest 

 carmine. They are borne in such profusion that the foliage is 

 entirely covered during the blossoming time. In the Fall the 

 leaves become bronze in color. 



The colors seen in the ircvporttdi Azalea ganadavensis^ the Ghent 

 Azaleas, and Azalea mollis^ a native of China and Japan, which 

 the florists offer each year, are very attractive and striking, but, 

 while you enjoy these, invest also in those others which will grow 

 outside and go from grace to grace and glory to glory. 



After the season of bloom is over, these pot-grown plants may 

 also be put in the open ground, and will give fairly satisfactory 

 results. To me, however, they do not appeal as do those which 

 are indigenous. They are wonderful hybrids, but, just as a 

 cluster of Chrysanthemums is far more beautiful than the yard 

 of stem and the mammoth flower that have been grown from 

 the sacrifice of the whole armful of blossoms, so the beauty of 



