Old Flower Favorites 



163 



love to grow by crimson-purple Phlox, a most 

 inharmonious association, and vou can hardly 

 separate them. If a flower dislikes her neighbor 

 in the garden, she moves quietly away, I don't know 

 where or how. Sometimes she dies, but at any rate 

 she is gone. It is so queer; I have tried every year 

 to make Feverfew grow in this bed, and it won't do 

 it, though it grows across the path. There is some 

 flower here 

 that the pom- 

 pous Feverfew 

 doesn't care to 

 associate with. 

 Not the Lark- 

 spur, tor they 

 are famous 

 friends — per- 

 haps it is the 

 Sweet William, 

 who is rather 

 a plain fellow. 

 In general 

 flowers are very 

 sociable with 

 each other, but 



Sweet William and Foxglove. 



they have some preferences, and these are powerful 



ones. 



It is amusing to read in no less than five recent 

 English "garden-books," by flower-loving souls, 

 the solemn advice that if you wish a beautiful gar- 

 den effect you " must plant the great Oriental Poppy 

 by the side of the White Lupine." 



