The Hardy Garden 



in a long row it is a mass of snowy white in late 

 June and July that compels one with its beauty. 

 Its congener, the spirsea fiUipendula, a lesser 

 but most graceful gi'owth, also pleases one es- 

 pecially when grown in long rows in front of 

 taller plants. And right here is a point well 

 worth considering in planting a hardy border — 

 the arranging of plants in rising tiers of bloom so 

 that a bank of bloom may be produced. One 

 effective bed that gladdened my heart for several 

 seasons and rose in tier after tier of gi'acious 

 bloom through several weeks of early summer had 

 an initial planting next the front of tritomas, 

 whose scarlet torches of flame did not come into 

 bloom until late summer, but from then until 

 frost made a brilliant band of color. Back of 

 these was a fine planting of columbine, next a 

 row of scarlet lychnis alternated with white fever- 

 few, and still further back a full planting of 

 the garden spirsea whose feathery heads of pinky- 

 white flowers stood four or five feet high and in 

 turn were topped with fine clumps of physoste- 

 gias ; the whole planting making a beautiful bank 



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