COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



may be had in flower indoors by Christmas. Many of these 

 early Tulips are most graciously inexpensive and I love to 

 use them lavishly, picking out the design of the garden with 

 their delightful colour and planting Japanese Cherry and 

 Peach-trees to flower at the same time. 



For pink ones we have Cottage Maid, La Reine des 

 Reines, Rose Luisante, Pink Beauty, and Flamingo. 



For white: White Hawk, LTmmaculee, and La Reine. 



For yellow: Chrysolora, Golden Queen, Yellow Prince, 

 Primrose Queen, and Leopold II. 



For orange: Thomas Moore, Prince of Austria, Leonardo 

 da Vinci, Couleur Cardinal, and De Wet. 



For Scarlet: Belle Alliance, Rembrandt, Sir Thomas 

 Lipton, and Crimson King. 



We enjoy the pretty primness of these Dutch Tulips in 

 the April scheme of things, but none the less do we welcome 

 the willowy grace and aesthetic colours of the Tulips that 

 bloom in May. These we plant beneath the flowering trees 

 in groups of six or a dozen and all about the borders among 

 the many charming flowers that with them adorn the 

 season. 



Directly in front of the garden house, along the straight 

 path that crosses the garden, is my favourite Tulip picture. 

 At either end a Cedar arbour hung with Wistaria spans the 

 path and in between standard Wistarias decorate its 

 length. All along beneath the low-drooping ropes of 

 pendent purple blooms flutter troops of scarlet-and-white 

 Tulips. Perhaps this picture will seem a trifle bizarre to 

 some decorous imaginations, but to me it is so fresh and 

 unaffected — so entirely "chic," that no offering of the 



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