COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



beautiful are these that range from tender rose-mauve to 

 deep rose and claret — Wyomissing, Windham, Pauline, Mt. 

 Penn, and Hugo. Beautiful, too, among the so-called pink 

 Irises are Ed. Michel with very large flowers of warm wine- 

 red; Lohengrin, uniform soft rose-mauve; and Mrs. Alan 

 Gray, very tender in its colouring. All these are still 

 rather costly but one is easily consoled with the older sorts, 

 Queen of May, Her Majesty, Leonidas, and Madame Pac- 

 quitte, which, were it not for those intriguing eulogies in 

 the catalogues, would satisfy one's every desire. 



No flowers offer a lovelier accompaniment for Irises than 

 do the new Lupines. Their beautiful spreading foliage is 

 just the right foil for the svelte leaves of the Iris, their classic 

 flower spike the perfect antithesis of the heavier Flag 

 flower. Here we have mauve-pink Iris Her Majesty with 

 creamy Lupines, the paler Queen of May with some of the 

 delicately opalescent lavender sorts, deep blue Lupines with 

 the fine chrome-yellow Iris aurea (variegata section), and 

 pink Lupines in lovely association with the pure white Iris 

 Innocenza. 



Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves are good company for 

 Irises, the latter furnishing tactful companionship for the 

 strange harmonies to be found in the variegata and squalens 

 sections; gold and smoke colour and purple; crimson, brown, 

 and dull yellow; gray and russet and white; fawn and 

 maroon and amaranth and many more that give one pause 

 when it comes to finding their proper niche among the less 

 complex of the garden's children. 



Single Peonies in soft pink and old rose are delightful 

 among the lavender Irises of the pallida group. They do not 



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