THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



the little Annchen Mueller roses set thick against 

 opening gypsophila glowed like rubies; the great 

 white peonies flushed in the setting sun till one 

 might fancy that Festiva maxima had magically 

 become that beauty of beauties in peonies, Ma- 

 dame Emile Galle. 



A few particularly fine delphiniums have this 

 year attained special perfection in the garden, in 

 better shades of light blue than any before seen 

 here, except perhaps for the blue of the old fa- 

 vorite Cantab and the fine Madame Violet Geslin 

 which a year ago was a revelation. La France, 

 elsewhere described, gave great delight. Kelway's 

 Lovely was remarkable for its overlaid petals of 

 palest blue and palest lavender. The beauteous 

 Persimmon, too, was there; its color so truly 

 sky-blue that when a flower was held against the 

 heavenly canopy of a fine summer's day, it seemed 

 to disappear, to melt into its own hue. One 

 could wish that handsome spring-blooming thing, 

 muscari Heavenly Blue, relieved of its present 

 ill-fitting name and the pretty title bestowed in- 

 stead upon delphinium Persimmon. This it in 

 very truth describes. 



One of those discerning friends who send de- 

 tails of flowers seen afar off, wrote from England 



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