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spireas, have Madame Plantier roses, have 

 Madonna lilies, have tall spikes of valerian, 

 and low borders of double daisies, and mats 

 of the perennial candytuft. Have plenty of 

 white asters and chrysanthemums ready for the 

 days when blues are not, and above all have 

 plenty of soft grey-green leafage to set off the 

 blues moss-pinks, lavender, centaurias. Your 

 garden will be then a parure of jewels, sapphires 

 of every sparkling, palpitating, ineffable blue, 

 set in the silver that befits such gems. 



For earlier blooming the scillas are incom- 

 parable, and the grape hyacinths, if closely 

 planted and left to themselves for a dozen 

 years before dividing and replanting, are very 

 delightful. Blue hyacinths are altogether 

 desirable, but need an abundant high light of 

 white ones adjacent to give their best effect. 

 Personally I care most for a small single variety, 

 seen in old gardens, which throws up many tall, 

 few-flowered stalks from a nest of leaves. 

 While they are here the woods are offering us 

 those charming blues which are so distinctively 

 American, and so easily transplanted. The 

 violet, which is the violet par excellence to the 

 world at large, spreads fairy wreaths of deep 



