COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



always gay and pretty and the garden picture maker will do 

 well to put some clumps of Campanula lactiflora alba, white, 

 and the gray-blue E. Molineaux among his scarlet Phloxes. 

 General von Heutsz is particularly fine with Platycodons of 

 dim blue colour or with soft lavender Goat's Rue. The 

 dark blue Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus) is fine in a 

 group with white Goat's Rue (Galega officinalis) and Phlox 

 Baron von Dedem. 



Africa is a fairly new Phlox of a deep Tyrian rose colour, 

 with an amaranth purple eye. It is very rich in effect and 

 only less handsome than the deeper toned Compt von 

 Hochberg, pure amaranth purple in colour. These two 

 sorts are very amenable to arrangement. Pure pink flowers, 

 Zinnias, Clarkia, Mallows, or Snapdragons are fine in their 

 neighbourhood and also flowers of mauve and lavender col- 

 ouring. Compt Von Hochberg is one of the longest flowering 

 Phloxes I know. I have a group of it that starts flowering 

 through a mist of double-flowered Gypsophila and is still 

 in great beauty when the wandlike branches of Aster Top 

 Sawyer colour softly about it and over the spent Gypso- 

 phila. 



Good white Phloxes are many. The one I find the 

 most valuable is the late-flowering Jeanne d'Arc (syn. 

 Pearl). It is the very best white flower in bloom with the 

 Michaelmas Daisies. It is an old-fashioned sort and many 

 nurserymen have dropped it from their lists to make room 

 for some of the newer sorts with enormous trusses of great 

 wheel-like blossoms, but if I might have but one white 

 Phlox it would be Jeanne d'Arc. I find many uses for it; 

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