138 THE BLOSSOM CIRCLE OF THE YEAR 



Of the Columbines, Aquilcgia asrulca^ in blue and white, and 

 A. hybrida will be found satisfactory. This plant is exceed- 

 ingly decorative from the foliage standpoint as well as for the 

 blossoms. If cut, the latter will continue for several months. 



The Japanese Bell Flower, Platycodon grandiflora^ in blue 

 and white, is charming and effective when combined with 

 Heynerocallis flava, or H. fulva. Campanula carpatica and 

 C. pyramidalis, the Chimney Bell Flower, with the Cup and 

 Saucer of the Canterbury Bells, give another set of blue values 

 in the garden color scale. These may also be planted in rose 

 and white. 



The Foxgloves, Digitalis gloxinixflora^ are wonderful when 

 they can be successfully grown. They must have a cool start 

 for seed germination, shade through the Summer months and 

 a sheltered position for the Winter. This done, they begin to 

 bloom in February and for six weeks are glorious anywhere. 

 Planted among the broad-leaved evergreens so generally used 

 in the South, they are more effective than when seen in the gar- 

 dens of other sections, perhaps because to see them blooming so 

 early is such a surprise. In these, my favorite colors are the 

 rose and white, although the purple is ^ood in some combina- 

 tions. Being biennials the Foxgloves must be planted each year. 



Foxgloves are so beautiful! Just the name always brings to 

 my mind the picture of a rich and effective garden scene at High- 

 land Falls, New York, three Summers ago. Long lines of stately, 

 dignified blossoms, rich in color harmonies, stood sentinel-like 

 against the dark rich greens of Pine and Fir and Cedar, with soft 

 green grass stretching away in the foreground until lost in the 

 shadows of the lofty trees that rim the beautiful river at that 

 point. Foxgloves against conifers with turf in the foreground: 

 an ideal to be striven for. 



In February also the flower stalks of the perennial Delphin- 

 iums, or hardy Larkspurs, begin to lift themselves above the cleanly 

 cut leaves. In mid-March the flower buds unfold and the blue 

 of the sky is then a part of the garden glory. No flower shows 

 so clear a cerulean blue, so heavenly an azure as does Del- 

 phinium Th'IIadoJina. A clump of these Delphiniums planted in 



