JULY PLANNING 



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NERIUMS SHOULD BE IN BLOOM IN JULY 



Cold Winters frequently injure them, but against a well-kept hedge as shown here, they are 



protected and attractive. Closer planting would be better 



garden children, the flowers of Fio/a cornnta. These blossoms 

 have the colors of the Pansy and the fragrance of the Violet and 

 bloom from month to month. Then each returning season would 

 have its quota of blossom and my continental border would 

 delight with its sweetness and bless with its brightness for twelve 

 months every year. 



Surely the old gardens of Colonial days must have had such 

 borders in them, for the regimental colors are to be seen in full 

 splendor. White of the snowflakes, the sea foam, the moonlight; 

 blue of the starshine, the sea depths and the Summer skies; gold 

 of the sunlight, the fruit-laden Orange groves, the ripening Wheat 

 fields, and precious metal of the mines — these are the pictures 

 this part of my garden calls to mind. 



For the benefit of those who may care to make such a border 

 in their own gardens, I append a summary of the plantings for 

 the Blue, White and Gold Border: 



White Flowers, Spanish Iris, British Queen, La Tendresse; 



