COMPANION CROPS 



among the arabis and making the loveliest imag- 

 inable spring bouquet. The single arabis I have 

 now forsworn in favor of the new double variety, 

 which is far more effective like a tiny white 

 stock without the stock's stiffness of habit and 

 quite as easy to grow and maintain. 



In the blossomy photograph, facing page 48, are 

 found four or five companion crops of flowers, 

 though that was a peculiar season in which this 

 picture was made, when syringas bloomed with 

 Canterbury bells ! Here peonies and Canterbury 

 bells make up the bulk of bloom, some young 

 syringa bushes showing white back of them, and 

 sweetbrier covered with fragrant pink to the 

 right. Sweet-williams and pinks may be found 

 in the foreground with rich rose pyrethrum, the 

 sweet-williams of a dark rose-red, in perfect har- 

 mony with all the paler pinks near and beyond 

 them. I may say here that, like most amateurs, 

 I have a favorite color in flowers the pink of 

 Drummond phlox, Chamois Rose, or, in deeper 

 tones, of sweet-william Button's Pink Beauty, or 

 the rosy-stock-flowered larkspur. When I say that 

 such and such a flower is of a good warm pink, it 

 is to the tones of one or the other of these that I 

 would refer. 



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