COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



time of its fulness and beauty. There should be white and 

 purple Persian Lilacs, all these gracious free-growing Roses, 

 masses of soft-coloured Lupines and Irises, spreads of 

 mediating gray foliage and trails of spicy Pinks, soft- 

 coloured Nepeta and Stachys. The accompanying plan is 

 for a border long dreamed of and desired. 



The free-growing Roses require no pruning beyond the 

 thinning out of old or dead wood and the shortening of 

 frost-nipped branches. The briers, Harison's Yellow, Per- 

 sian Yellow, and Stanwell's Perpetual, are most effective 

 when planted rather close together in groups of three, as 

 their growth is rather straggling. I have a beautiful 

 garden Rose whose name I do not know. It was here 

 growing in the tangle of the old-fashioned dooryard when 

 we came. Its branches are long and wandlike and laden 

 with loosely double bright pink Roses — the base of each 

 petal being white. The illustration Plate 11 shows it bloom- 

 ing, about the middle of the month, in a north border among 

 Delphiniums, white Goat's Rue, Galega, and Anchusas. 



Pinks are a delicious garnish for the June borders. Besides 

 the Grass and Scotch Pinks there are delightful develop- 

 ments of the plumarius type. Better, I believe, than either 

 Mrs. Sinkins or Her Majesty for a double white Pink are 

 Perpetual Snow and White Reserve. They are less likely, 

 in the stout doubling of their scented petals, to rend their 



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