COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



high-pitched scarlet Geums and for Lychnis chalcedon- 

 ica. Sweet Williams, I think, are best treated as bien- 

 nials, the young plants started in a nursery bed, set in 

 the garden in autumn, and pulled up after flowering. 

 The second flowering is always a poor affair and Sweet 

 Williams are so easily raised from seed that there is no 

 reason why we should not enjoy the solid blocks of fine 

 colour given by their first flowering. Young plants of 

 Ageratum, French Marigolds, Petunias — the pretty white- 

 throated Rosy Morn or the new and very fine violet sort 

 Velchenblau — a revelation in Petunias — may be set about 

 the patches of Sweet William, to expand and flower after 

 the last mentioned have been cast out. 



And then we come to a corner of the garden where an 

 apple blossom of a Rose — Empress of China — trails its 

 bloom-laden branches from a corner of the pergola over a 

 group of rich crimson Peonies and great clumps of rich- 

 toned purple Campanula latifolia macrantha. Here too are 

 very tall white Foxgloves, the seed of which was acquired 

 of an English seed house under the name of Ayreshire 

 White. They are exceptionally tall and graceful, but some 

 of them lack the enticing brown freckles that make the 

 Foxglove flowers look like the noses of little country chil- 

 dren. The Yellow Foxglove (Digitalis ambigua) is a fine, 

 soft-toned thing, seldom growing taller than three feet, but a 

 true perennial and one that blooms off and on throughout 

 the season. I often find the pretty yellow blossom spikes 

 after several hard frosts. 



How any one can tolerate the monstrosity known as 

 Digitalis purpurea monstrosa, that has a great saucer at the 



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