THE EARLY FALL GLORY 161 



But I am wandering far from home, and the 

 weather is too fine to stay away from my yet 

 growing garden, where I am sincerely trying, at 

 least, to work out pictures with plants right here, 

 and without thought of slavish imitation. 



October surely provides me with some plant- 

 paints peculiar to the season. The stately, yet 

 lovely and dainty Japanese anemones are at their 

 best for full three weeks, and it is a very good best. 

 In the pink bed a great mass of Queen Charlotte 

 shows satiny flowers of a beautiful rose tint, and 

 the pure white Whirlwind is a drawing display 

 against the old arborvitse hedge. Some plants in a 

 shady border hold back later, and one clump along 

 the axis walk combines its whiteness with the 

 lovely blue monkshood, Aconitum Fischeri var. 

 Wilsonii. It is a good combination. 



Those same delphiniums mentioned so fre- 

 quently are yet a leading garden feature, for the 

 cutting away of the blooms without permitting 

 seed to be formed has caused them, assisted by a 

 liberal manure mulch and much water, to keep 

 right on blooming. Instead of becoming ragged by 

 reason of long bloom and cool nights, the scarlet 

 sage is finer than ever. In fact, about everything 

 that was blooming in September has concluded to 

 be "continued in our next," and is with us yet. On 



