THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



flowers, the high lights of the picture, and also an 

 unbroken succession of bloom. The flowers chosen 

 for this purpose should be reliable and prolific 

 bloomers, and I think that only such kinds should 

 be used as yield the most beautiful and effective 

 flowers that can be had at the particular blooming 

 season of each. Why seek to get results by using 

 flowers insignificant in themselves when these re- 

 sults may be got with flowers that are more 

 beautiful as single specimens? 



"To obtain my unbroken succession of bloom 

 and the other results I have outlined, I have used 

 the following: crocuses, daffodils, Darwin tulips, 

 German irises and pink Oriental poppies, peonies, 

 Thunberg's lilies, larkspurs and Madonna lilies, 

 Japanese irises, pink annual poppies, phloxes, 

 late aconites, and Japanese anemones. These may 

 be called my main-line forces, although nothing in 

 the garden is planted in rows or in lines or accord- 

 ing to any set figure or design. May -flowering 

 scillas, heucheras, Rocky Mountain columbines, 

 bleeding-hearts, brodiaeas, ixias, lupines, gladioli, 

 etc., come in as aids or reinforcements to add to 

 the beauty and gay effect. Peonies and late aco- 

 nites, on account of their lasting foliage, are used 

 not only for their flowers but with reference to 



348 



