SUCCESSION CROPS 



back of iris leaves is also effective, and, by care- 

 fully considered planting, gladiolus forms a be- 

 tween-crop of no little value. 



Of succession crops to follow each other in 

 places apart, it is hardly worth while to speak. 

 This is an easy matter to arrange; the fading of 

 color before one shrubbery group acting as a signal 

 to another place to brighten. Munstead primroses 

 (cut, page 46) are scarcely out of bloom when tulip 

 Cottage Maid and arabis are in beauty, as in cut on 

 page 42, in an unused spot under grapes, and these 

 are quickly followed by rambler roses (cut, page 48) , 

 peonies, and Canterbury bells in the garden proper 

 (cut, page 48). Bordering on the turf edges of 

 a walk in a kitchen garden three succession crops 

 of flowers have been obtained by the use of these 

 three plantings. Roses stand a foot back from the 

 grass. Between them and the turf long, irregular 

 masses of Tulipa Gesneriana, var. rosea, bloom 

 rich rose-red in May. The roses follow in June; 

 and Beauty of Oxford verbena covers the dying 

 tulip leaves with clusters of wonderful pink bloom 

 which lasts well into the autumn. 



I have sometimes thought that a white garden 

 would be a simple matter to arrange, and that, 

 under certain very green and fresh conditions and 



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