COLOR IN THE FLOWER GARDEN 179 



tions for the small formal garden, and for that vital spot, the 

 trial garden. 



The reference to the trial garden moves me to offer here the 

 names of half a dozen annuals and as many perennials with which 

 I have made acquaintance through the trial garden, and which 

 have thrown an added glamour for me over the whole matter of 

 color in the garden. Sutton's double salmon clarkia; Sutton's 

 Rose stock-flowered larkspur (happily well known now); Sutton's 

 snapdragons Coral Red and Bright Pink; the pink mallow, Lava- 

 tera rosea splendejis, old but very valuable; scabiosa Sutton's 

 Black Prince; and the two pink verbenas, Beauty of Oxford and 

 Ellen Willmott; the latter a delicious arbutus pink and white. 

 For perennials, delphinium Cantab, a remarkable blue; the two 

 heucheras, Flambeau and Pluie de Feu; Eryngium amethystinum; 

 the glorious Oriental poppies Mrs. Perry and Princess Victoria 

 Louise; Artemisia lactiflora, of which mention is made later; and 

 Clematis recta, too little used for so fine an addition to our beds 

 or borders. 



A handful of the newer varieties of hardy phlox as they looked 

 to me in my trial garden two years ago, I may mention now; 

 R. P. Struthers, superb salmon-red, strikingly rich in color; G. A. 

 Strohlein, orange-scarlet with a blood red eye; General von Heutz, 

 brilliant salmon-red, white eye of medium height; Gruppen Koni- 

 gen, flesh color, with a dark eye, immense masses of bloom; Snow 

 Queen, with a large branching truss; Mme. Meuret, fine clear 

 pink, truss large, composed of small florets. Any or all of these 

 I commend as unusually beautiful phloxes for color. 



Most of these are so called novelties; and here may I speak one 

 word for novelties? In the older days, they were to be found on 

 pink pages on our seed list. The pink pages are practically 

 extinct, which I regret, for their very color stimulated imagina- 

 tion. The progressive seed and plant houses of today however, 

 offer, if on white pages, lists of novelties in plants and shrubs 

 which are surely not only finer in type than ever before, but more 

 thoroughly tested, better established in the eyes of the intro- 

 ducers, and therefore better worth a trying-out on our part. It is 

 difficult now to realize that Thunberg's barberry is a compara- 

 tively recent novelty. Today many things as valuable as this 



