COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



overpower the more frailly fashioned flowers as do the heavy- 

 headed double sorts. Single flowers are to me nearly 

 always more beautiful, and while I would not part with one 

 of my dear apoplectic — the adjective is Maeterlinck's — 

 double Peonies, I am glad to see the chaste singles and 

 loose-petalled semi-doubles coming into favour. 



Other flowers that find a happy companionship among 

 the Irises in my garden are Valerian, Oriental Poppies, 

 Nepeta Mussini, Baptisia australis, Meadow Sage — its dull 

 blue flower spikes are lovely with the mauve-pink Irises — 

 Meadow Rue, old-fashioned Fraxinella, both the white and 

 the pink sorts, and the simple border Roses. 



We have not seen half the garland in which June frames 

 her laughing face; and many a sweet and lovely flower has 

 been passed unnoted in our colour-bewildered progress. 

 Truly it is not good to have too much at once; how grateful 

 should we be for a single hour of this bountiful June day in 

 white December! 



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