SPRING FLOWER BORDER 



I count on the Japanese iris as an ally of the 

 English one (though, oddly enough, this was ar- 

 ranged long before war broke out), the latter said 

 to be a delicious shade of pinkish mauve. The 

 cool pink spirea, too, should create a delicate foil 

 for the broad-petalled Iris Kaempferi, and my 

 faint and perhaps foolish hope is that a few forget- 

 me-nots may be tricked into blooming on till iris 

 Mauve Queen shows its color; for of all garden 

 harmonies I dearly love the pale blues and mauves, 

 brilliant blues and deep violets, set over against 

 each other. 



How charming were the flowers along my little 

 brick walk about the 15th of May ! Myosotis 

 half in bloom, and the soft yellow-green buds of 

 Yellow Rose among and above it; tulip Agneta 

 only ranks of pointed buds back of these. One 

 week later great blooms of yellow tulip (was ever 

 tulip better named?) were in clusters among the 

 myosotis while, above this canary color and blue, 

 Agneta lifted beautiful lilac cups. The effect was 

 indescribably gay and original. Leaves of Iris 

 pallida Dalmatica were now broadening back of 

 the tulips, spirea spreading its delicately cut 

 green and brown-madder foliage between the iris 

 spears, and young peonies repeated these tones 



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