THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



stronger, and more enduring flowers the charming 

 color characteristics of that poppy, whose one 

 defect is its ephemeral quality! 



From a color-plate in the list of the plantsman 

 just mentioned a very beautiful combination of 

 poppies should be got by using the rich amaranth 

 Mahony, described as "deep mahogany-maroon," 

 but which I should call a blackish mulberry, with 

 Rose Queen, a fine satiny rose-pink. The revolu- 

 tion in color in these poppies transforms them at 

 once into subjects of the greatest interest for the 

 formal or informal garden, the garden which pre- 

 cludes the use of scarlet, orange, or any deep 

 yellow. The rich darkness of Mahony would be 

 a heavenly sight with the Dropmore anchusa ris- 

 ing back of it, but for real nobility of effect the 

 two should be used alone. 



Some plants seem a bit dull in their beginnings; 

 not so with this, for from the first the lovely form 

 and curve of each leaf is apparent, aside from the 

 fresh yellow-green of the leaf -group. To fill the 

 wide spaces of earth which should occur between 

 plants destined for so rapid and so large a growth, 

 tulips are suggested; to follow the poppy bloom 

 and act again as a ground cover, seed of salpi- 

 glossis sown early, or of tall marigold, whose foli- 



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