THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



petals above the rounding gypsophilas in whose 

 lacy masses some poppies softly bloom. So like 

 are the poppies to the individual hollyhock flowers 

 that it is as if some of the former had whimsically 

 decided to grow along a hollyhock stalk. If one 

 were to try for this effect, a new gladiolus, Display, 

 should be freely used within the range of vision 

 here; and the beauteous sea-holly would again 

 prove its high garden value if groups should be 

 set in this picture. Among the pink poppies I 

 very much fancy the white platycodon, P. grandi- 

 florum album; the pearly tone of these flowers 

 charming with the gay poppy-blooms, and the 

 platycodon's smooth pointed cups affording an 

 interesting contrast to the other's soft fulness of 

 fringed silk. Gladiolus Display among sea-holly 

 could not but be excellently effective. It is a 

 gladiolus of rare beauty. 



Let us not pass by the Oriental poppy in our 

 consideration of the flowers of the poppy tribe. 

 In the latitude of Boston the fresh pale-green 

 tufts of the former may be discovered in early 

 April, a heartening and lovely sight as the last 

 snows of winter are vanishing before the spring 

 sun. These have formed in the previous autumn, 

 but this perennial has a constitution to withstand 



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