II 



COMPANION CROPS 



IT will be as well to say at the outset that my 

 tastes are as far as possible removed from 

 those popularly understood to be Japanese. I 

 almost never regard a flower alone. I can ad- 

 mire a perfect Frau Karl Druschki rose, a fine 

 spray of Countess Spencer sweet pea, but never 

 without thinking of the added beauty sure to be 

 its part if a little sea-lavender were placed next 

 the sweet pea, or if more of the delicious roses 

 were together. Wherefore it will be seen that my 

 mind is bent wholly on grouping or massing, and 

 growing companion crops of flowers to that end. 

 Mention is made only of those flower crops ac- 

 tually in bloom at the same time in the garden 

 illustrated. From this garden, of thirty-two beds 

 separated by turf walks, and with two central 

 cross-walks and an oblong pool for watering pur- 

 poses, practically all yellow flowers have been elim- 

 inated, and all scarlet as well. The early colum- 

 bine (Aquilegia chrysaniha) and the pale-yellow 



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