THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



Platycodons, both blue and white, are capital 

 to dwell among and succeed Canterbury bells; 

 the platycodons to be followed again in their turn 

 by the later-blooming Campanula pyramidalis. 



Will some kind garden-lover make me his debtor 

 by suggesting a good neighbor and successor to 

 the hardy phlox? This has been a problem in a 

 locality where frost is due in early September, and 

 some of the tenderer things, such as cosmos, are 

 really nothing but a risk. If one could raze one's 

 phloxes to the ground once they had finished their 

 best bloom, the case might be different. But the 

 French growers now advise (according to interest- 

 ing cultural instructions for phlox-growing issued 

 by one specialist) the retention of all flower stalks 

 during winter ! This makes necessary an im- 

 mense amount of work in the way of cutting, to- 

 ward early September, in order that the phloxes 

 may keep some decent appearance as shrublike 

 plants of green. 



To follow the bloom of Iris Germanica (of which 

 I find two varieties planted together, Mrs. Hor- 

 ace Darwin and Gloire de Hillegom, to give a 

 charming succession crop of flowers with a change 

 of hue as well), I have already recommended the 

 planting of gladiolus. Lilium candidum growing 



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