2io A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



has plenty of sand, plenty of bonemeal, and 

 plenty of sunshine, give you six good weeks 

 full of bloom. The pansies will not only bear 

 them company, but will cover their ripening 

 leaves with a fair pall of laughing colour and 

 cheerfulness, which will last far into the hot 

 weather, and will begin to laugh again when 

 the autumn dews fall on them. Among them 

 have some bulbs of the auratum lilies, I beg 

 you. They will grow quite unperceived until 

 the day of their gorgeous tropical flowering 

 and, that over, they will withdraw quietly, and 

 with dignity. Auratum lilies are most beauti- 

 ful, also, planted about with yellow Spanish iris, 

 who go the way of all things bright and fair 

 before lily time, after which, if you have a small 

 bed for reserves, you can fill in the bed with 

 any one of half-a-dozen yellow-flowering things 

 Michaelmas daisies, calendulas, marigolds, or 

 even zinnias, which can now be had in lovely 

 shades of pale yellow and burnt orange. The 

 yellow columbine must have its honoured place 

 in the hardy border beside the wallflower, and 

 a small very double, shining ranunculus, which 

 used to bloom in long ago Mays, snap- 

 dragons, nasturtiums, escholtzias, coreopsis 



