THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



ing tulip Brimstone more grown? And what is 

 there more lovely to behold than masses of this 

 pale-lemon-colored double tulip, slightly tinged 

 with pink, with soft mounds and sprays of the 

 earliest forget-me-not gently lifting its sprays of 

 turquoise-blue against the delicately tinted but 

 vigorous heads of this wonderful tulip? 



CARMINE, LAVENDER, CREAM-WHITE, AND ORANGE 

 LATE MAY 



On a slope toward the north a few open spaces 

 of poor soil between small white pines are covered 

 by the trailing stems of Rosa Wichuraiana. Up 

 through these thorny stems, along which tiny 

 points of green only are showing, rise in mid-May 

 glowing blooms of the May-flowering tulip Cou- 

 leur Cardinal, with its deep-carmine petals on the 

 outside of which is the most glorious plumlike 

 bloom that can exist in a flower. The exquisite 

 true lavender of the single hyacinth Holbein, a 

 "drift" of which starts in the midst of the car- 

 mine-purple tulip and broadens as it seems to 

 move down the slope, becomes itself merged in a 

 large planting of Narcissus Orange Phoenix. This 

 narcissus with its soft, creamy petals (both peri- 

 anth and trumpet interspersed with a soft orange) 



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