THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



ical thing in the end. If the plants please, and 

 the colors form an agreeable combination with 

 others already in the garden, their removal in the 

 autumn from trial-garden rows to certain spots in 

 the garden proper is simple. 



A portion of the trial garden is kept for seed, 

 and the balance for small collections of bulbs or 

 plants; except so much space as is reserved for 

 the fours, eights, and sixteens mentioned above. 

 Of Crambe cordifolia, for example, I should never 

 plant more than four, owing to its great size and 

 spreading habit of growth, while of a dwarf hardy 

 phlox eight should be the least. It occurs to me 

 often that some of us underestimate the enormous 

 value of this wonderful plant. Sure to bloom as 

 is the sun to rise and set, varying in its height as 

 few other flowers do, with a range of wonderful 

 color unsurpassed, perhaps unrivalled, by any 

 hardy flower, the gardener's consolation in a hot, 

 dry August, when it maketh the wilderness of the 

 midsummer formal garden to blossom as the rose 

 there is a delightful combination of certainty 

 and beauty about it which cannot be overpraised. 

 Forbes, the great Scotch grower, in his last list 

 gives six pages of fine type to this flower. It is 

 like a clock in its day of bloom, another great 



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