136 THE BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF THE YEAR 



CANNAS USED TO GOOD EFFECT IN CALIFORNIA 

 Yet any southern garden could have just as attractive a planting as this with all its August 



glory 



which is white suffused with rosy pink with a deeper pink center. 

 I plant these "en masse" and never tire of their beauty. Blossoms 

 from the seedlings of that sowing have given four months or more 

 of bloom for many succeeding Summers. There were just a 

 few of the seedlings that showed the magenta pink that seems 

 to be typical of the old-fashioned hardy Phlox. These had to 

 be dug up and thrown away, for that muddy mixture of pink 

 and blue and violet that is named magenta will *'queer" a whol&i 

 garden quicker than any other color in the scale. Watch out' 

 for it, and if your garden shows it in Petunias, Zinnias or Phlox, 

 root it out, being sure that, if you are minus that quantity in the ' 

 color scheme, your garden equation will resolve itself into a picture,: 

 that will make glad an artist's eye and heart. 



The Gaillardias are most satisfactory. The gray-green leaves 

 adorn the borders from season to season and the gay blossoms of 

 orange and scarlet, and yellow, that is as rich as gold, are to be 

 had for the cutting continuously from early in April until Mid- 



