88 Hardy Plants for Cottage Gardens 



poppy with a border of ^Ego podium and ferns; garden helio- 

 trope and larkspur or monkshood; pink Shirley poppies and 

 Paris daisy; bee balm and Galium Mollugo or Gypsophila 

 paniculata; amaranthus and Chrysanthemum maximum and 

 hydrangea; Veronica spicata and white Physostegia; lilac 

 Physostegia and white larkspur; star flower (Triteleia laxa) 

 and Coroni.Ua varia; wild carrot and Rudbeckia or blue lark- 

 spur; pink mallow and Euphorbia corrolata; Chrysanthemum 

 maximum and hollyhocks; bouncing Bet and lilac paeony 

 poppy; nigella, candytuft and annual blue larkspur; pink 

 branching annual larkspur and the first year's growth of Alle- 

 gheny vine; perennial white phlox and hydrangea with golden 

 glow or Helen flower; gaura and cardinal flower; amaran- 

 thus and early cosmos; pink or red scabious and pink or 

 white early cosmos; gladiolus and perennial phlox or Japanese 

 anemone; Stokesia cyanea and Achillea; Aster Novi-Belgii 

 and blue or lavender Michaelmas daisy and white perennial 

 phlox or white or blue Boltonia. 



It may be objected that a too frequent use of white is made 

 in the suggested combinations. I can only repeat what I say 

 elsewhere, that white and green are the best possible foils for 

 colored flowers, and are indispensable in a garden that ex- 

 presses delicacy and grace. 



There are many plants whose manner of growth does not 

 lend them easily to general combinations, although the color 

 may be harmonious; for example: the German iris throws out 

 a heavy root stock in a circular way, which soon makes an un- 

 manageable clump; and if divided, to keep it small, it takes a 

 year, or more, according to the division, for it to bloom again. 

 Also the Incarvillea Delavayi is surrounded by large radical 

 leaves that are so admirably adapted as a background for its 

 tall flower stalks that it needs no other plant as a foil. The 

 same is true of Archangelica with its great acanthus leaves, 



