THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



of spirea leaves in a vigorous row farthest from 

 the walk. 



The form and habit of Yellow Rose make it a 

 tulip particularly fit for use with myosotis, but 

 its yellow is too strong in tone for the lilac and 

 sky-blue of the other flowers. Moonlight, how- 

 ever, is too near Agneta in height. Perhaps Brim- 

 stone (Safrano) would be the better subject here, 

 but Brimstone blooms earlier than Yellow Rose. 

 In using Brimstone, however, off should go its 

 head so soon as the rose-pink flush begins to show, 

 since that pink would doubtless to some extent 

 interfere with the effect of the three pale colors 

 here desired, blue, yellow, and lavender. An- 

 other suggestion is, as substitute for the Darwin 

 Agneta the use of the fine tulip Gudin, certainly 

 one of the most ravishing of all the Darwin tribe; 

 or of William Copeland (Sweet Lavender), the 

 beauty whose charming portrait was shown in 

 the colored plate with the issue of the "Garden- 

 ers' Chronicle" (English) for November, 1914. 



Brilliant, telling, as these spring flowers were, 

 running from arch to arch and seen against green 

 lawns, after ten days the picture was yet sweeter, 

 for the yellow tulips' race was run, the myosotis 

 had lifted delicate blue-clad stems in air, and the 



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