THE GARDEN AT HOME 



Shafer in her recently published "White Paper Garden." 

 " I need no warning/' she says, " but the shudder of my 

 own soul to tell me that the flare of Cannas is little short 

 of an immorality/' She goes on to say that " William 

 Morris may have been right when he said that red Gera- 

 niums were invented solely to show that even a flower 

 could be hideous/' but I protest that the two plants 

 have nothing in common. One of them preserves its 

 stately form, its distinction of outline, the other has 

 nothing to boast of but its blossoms. 



What exquisite association of leaf and flower is found 

 in the Plume Poppy (Bocconia cordata), the Ornamental 

 Seakale (Crambe cordifolia), the Goat's Beard (Spiraea 

 Aruncus), the Plantain Lily (Funkia), Fennel (Ferula), 

 the Maidenhair Plant (Thalictrum), the Chalk Plant 

 (Gypsophila), the Sea Holly (Eryngium), and perennial 

 Lobelia (cardinalis) ! 



But let it not be said that I am wearying the reader 

 with a list, for lists without due explanation are the 

 bane of the gardening reader, and too often the joy of 

 the gardening writer. Some plants that have only leaves 

 to recommend them are Acacia lophantha, the Castor 

 Oil Plant (Ricinus), Blue Gum (Eucalyptus), Hemp 

 (Cannabis sativa), and the Summer Cypress (Kochia 

 trichophylla). Others that one would not recommend 

 for the company of formal flowers, since they are 

 giants, and the contrast would be too incongruous, are 

 the Gunnera, perhaps the largest leaved of all plants, 



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