COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



new Mock-oranges — and interspersed with patches of soft 

 lavender and deep purple Aubrietia, Arenaria montana, 

 Iberis sempervirens, and goodly clumps of such May Iris 

 as Kharput and Amas. 



My favourite yellow Tulips are the following — all Cottage 

 varieties : 



Avis Kennicott — tall ; a lovely long flower of deepest yellow. 



Bouton d'Or — a small flower of warm tone. 



Ellen Willmott — pale yellow pointed flower; tall. 



Mrs. Kneightly — pale yellow; fine. Medium. 



Inglescomb yellow — pure butter yellow. 



Leghorn Bonnet — creamy yellow. 



Moonlight — long pale flower; tall and early. 



Mrs. Moon — splendid pointed flower; full yellow. 



Retroflexa— reflexing petals. My favourite tulip. 



Walter T. Ware — deep golden yellow. 



Vitellina — cream coloured. 



The warm, tawny-coloured Tulips like La Merveille, Gold- 

 en Spire (syn. elegans maxima lutea), and Orange Globe 

 are striking planted among sky-blue and white Flax, or 

 behind little spreads of silvery Nepeta Mussini with its 

 clouds of lavender flowers. These orange-coloured Tulips 

 are pretty for filling the beds or borders of Tea Roses. The 

 coppery shoots of the Rose bushes are in fine harmony with 

 the warm-toned Tulips. Later the beds might be carpeted 

 with Pansies or Viola cornuta, or sown with the two pretty 

 little annuals Ionopsidium acaule and Gypsophila muralis. 



There are three old-fashioned looking Tulips that seem 

 to breathe the atmosphere of the old gardens where their 

 ancestors sought shelter during the period when the garden- 



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