COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



but as this is a chapter to rose colour, I will give a list of 

 the best pink ones that I have found. Madame Emile 

 Galle is a French Peony of rare beauty. Its colour scheme 

 is opalescent, delicate rose-lilac as to its outer petals, but 

 paling to milk-white at the heart. It is a large, full flower 

 of the flat rose type. Madame Calot wears the peculiarly 

 charming silvery pink of the Hydrangea. This is also of 

 the rose type, a tall, strong grower and very fragrant. 

 Eugenie Verdier wears the same Hydrangea pink, but is 

 attractively flecked with deeper colour. Madame Coste, 

 Milton Hill, Madame Herve, Madame Forel, M. Jules Elie, 

 are all fine pink Peonies. 



Lavender Irises of the pallida section are good to grow 

 with these heavy-headed June Peonies. Some of the 

 finest are pallida dalmatica, Albert Victor, Australis, Vio- 

 lacea, Chester J. Hunt, and Blue Jay. 



Peony culture is most gratifyingly? simple ; the requisites 

 being only rich, deep soil and neglect. If they are planted in 

 partial shade the blossoms will last longer in perfection, and 

 some of the deep-toned sorts will be less apt to fade. 



Pyrethrums offer many shades of pink and rose colour 

 for the May garden. For once I am fonder of the double 

 form of a flower and find much charm in the compact many- 

 petalled Pyrethrums, which are as yet rather rare in this 

 country. The single sorts that are so good for cutting come 

 easily from seed and form heavy clumps that last for many 

 years. The single white Pyrethrum is too much like our 

 own field Daisy to seem to belong to the garden. 



Potentilla formosa and the improved Miss Willmott give 

 salmon-pink flowers over a long period, but while their 



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