A Moonlight Garden 427 



they will speak to you ? " for I turn to them with 

 such an expectancy of something. 



The " everlasting " white Pea is a most satisfac- 

 tory plant by day or night. Hedges covered with 

 it are a pure delight. Do not fear to plant it 

 with liberal hand. Be very liberal, too, in your 

 garden of white Foxgloves. Even if the garden 

 be small, there is room for many graceful spires 

 of the lovely bells to shine out everywhere, pierc- 

 ing up through green foliage and colored blooms 

 of other plants. They are not only beautiful, but 

 they are flowers of sentiment and association, en- 

 deared to childhood, visited of bees, among the 

 best beloved of old-time favorites. They consort 

 well with nearly every other flower, and certainly with 

 every other color, and they seem to clarify many a 

 crudely or dingily tinted flower ; they are as admir- 

 able foils as they are principals in the garden scheme. 

 In England, where they readily grow wild, they are 

 often planted at the edge of a wood, or to form vis- 

 tas in a copse. I doubt whether they would thrive 

 here thus planted, but they are admirable when set 

 in occasional groups to show in pure whiteness 

 against a hedge. I say in occasional groups, for the 

 Foxglove should never be planted in exact rows. 

 The White Iris, the Iris of the Florentine Orris- 

 root, is one of the noblest plants of the whole world ; 

 its pure petals are truly hyaline like snow-ice, like 

 translucent white glass; and the indescribably beauti- 

 ful drooping lines of the flowers are such a contrast 

 with the defiant erectness of the fresh green leaves. 

 Small wonder that it was a sacred flower of the 



