THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



On the date on which this picture of peonies 

 was made there were to be found in bloom in my 

 garden these: larkspur, Thermopsis Caroliniana 

 (which I grow near groups of tall pale-blue del- 

 phinium, and which makes a lovely color effect, 

 adding lemon-colored spikes to the blue), sweet- 

 williams, Canterbury bells, peonies, Aquilegia 

 chrysantha, Achillea ptarmica, hardy campanula, 

 pinks both annual and hardy, foxgloves, roses, 

 annual gypsophila, common daisies. The latter 

 are valuable for masses of early white. I cut 

 them to the ground as soon as bloom is over, 

 when their low leaf-clumps are quickly covered 

 by overhanging later flowers. 



The midsummer flower crops are, by all odds, 

 the greatest in variety as they are in luxuriance. 

 Some idea of the appearance of this garden in 

 mid-July may be had in the top cut facing, when 

 the flowers fully open are almost all either blue 

 or white, except toward the centre of the garden, 

 where delicate pink tones prevail, and the fine 

 purple hardy phlox Lord Rayleigh blooms, giving 

 richness to the picture and forming a combina- 

 tion of colors, blue and rich purple, which is 

 especially to my taste. 



The abundance of Gypsophila paniculata, var. 



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