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exquisite flower, Clarkia elegans, in the variety 

 known as Button's double salmon, one of the most 

 graceful and remarkably pretty annuals which 

 have ever come beneath my eye. Love-in-the-mist 

 blooms now, and the best variety, Miss Jekyll, is 

 exceedingly pretty and valuable. 



A list of companion crops for August most nat- 

 urally begins with perennial phloxes; in my case, 

 Pantheon, used very freely; Aurore Boreale, Fer- 

 nando Cortez (wonderful brilliant coppery pink), 

 a very little Coquelicot, used in conjunction with 

 sea-holly; white phloxes von Lassburg and Fiancee, 

 zinnia in light flesh tones, the good lavender-pink 

 physostegia (Virginica rosed), sea-holly, stocks, 

 and dianthus of the variety Salmon Queen. 



There is hardly space left in which to mention 

 the flower crops which enrich September with 

 color. But no list of the flowers of that month 

 should begin with the name of anything less lovely 

 than the tall, exquisite, pale-blue Salvia patens. 

 Called a tender perennial, I have found it entirely 

 hardy; and the sudden blooming of a pale-blue 

 flower spike in early autumn is as welcome as it 

 is surprising. Second to this I place the hardy 

 aster, or Michaelmas daisy, now to be had in many 

 named varieties and forming, with the sal via just 



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