THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



same day of each week of flowers in full bloom. 

 Then, by cutting certain blooms and holding them 

 against others, a happy contrast or harmony of 

 color is readily seen, and noted for trial in the 

 following year. 



BLUE AND CREAM- WHITE MARCH 



The earliest blooming color combination of 

 which I can speak from experience is illustrated on 

 the facing page. Here, backed by Mahonia, and 

 blooming in one season as early as late March, 

 thrives a most lovely group of blue and cream- 

 white spring flowers. Tulipa Kaufmanniana, open- 

 ing full always in the sun, spreads its deep creamy 

 petals, while below these tulips a few hundred 

 Scilla Sibirica show brilliantly blue. To the right 

 bloodroot is white with blossoms at the same mo- 

 ment, while behind this the creamy pointed buds 

 of Narcissus Orange Phoenix carry along the tone 

 of the cream-white tulip. Narcissus Orange Phoe- 

 nix is a great favorite of mine; leader of all the 

 double daffodils, I think it, with the exception of 

 Narcissus poeticus, var. plenus, the gardenia nar- 

 cissus, with its true gardenia scent and full ivory- 

 white blooms; with me, however, this narcissus 

 so seldom produces a flower that I have given 



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