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rose, and there are many good blue, or blue and white 

 sorts, also mauve and purple. I am not sure but that 

 the tall L. albus, with spikes of creamy blossoms, is the 

 prettiest of all and certainly it is the most useful. We 

 grow it behind such pinky-mauve Irises as Queen of 

 May, Her Majesty, and Mme. Pacquitte, with gray 

 Stachys as a foreground. It is fine also with the orange 

 Oriental Poppies or Lemon Lilies and indeed is no- 

 where amiss. If the spent flower stalks are cut off 

 Lupines will bloom the greater part of the summer. 



Many pretty things festoon the low walls and stone 

 edgings at this season. The two little Veronicas, V. 

 repens and prostrata, are as blue as the summer sky and 

 creep in and out among the stones and over into the 

 path most beguilingly. Delightful, too, is Corydalis 

 lutea, a ferny, feathery, fluffy little plant with pale yel- 

 low flowers and the power to get a footing in the most 

 impossible places. Nothing could be prettier for old 

 walls or flights of stone steps, and as it seeds freely 

 and can be trusted entirely to dispose of itself in the 

 most charming manner, is no trouble at all. It has a 

 noble relation, C. nobilis, which blooms late in the month 

 and dies down entirely after flowering. It is much 

 taller than the little Yellow Fumatory just mentioned, 

 but has the same lovely foliage and creamy tubular 

 blossoms which last in perfection fully three weeks. C. 

 cheilanthifolia is another fine sort for walls or the edge 

 of the border. They are all easily raised from seed, 



