COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



and tender amidst the gay trumpeting of autumn flowers. 

 It is made up of the mallow-purple wands of Aster Mrs. 

 J. F. Ray nor, white Phlox, and fine masses of gray Lyme 

 Grass, and over the stones at the edge of the border sprawls 

 in luxuriant, warm-toned beauty the bright magenta Poppy 

 Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata). 



The newer and earlier flowering white Phloxes are Frau 

 Antoine Buchner, F. G. von Lassburg, and Mrs. Jenkins. 

 Henri Murger and Josephine Gerbeaux have pink centres, 

 and Helen Vacaresco and Tapis Blanc are very dwarf 

 white varieties, the latter but eight inches in height, that 

 take their place at the front of the border. I love these 

 gleaming white Phloxes with masses of Lyme Grass and Rue, 

 with tall silver Globe Thistles (Echinops sphaerocephalus, 

 and Eryngium giganteum), with many bloom-hung branches 

 of Desmodium penduliflorum or some other flower of its 

 lovely rich colouring. 



I do not like white Phlox mixed through the groups of 

 pink and scarlet sorts; it breaks them up into sharp units 

 disturbing to the eye. With the lavenders they are of 

 course all right, but plants of quite other form are better 

 calculated to heighten the beauty of all. 



It is well known that Phlox to be had in perfection re- 

 quires a deep, rich loam, leaning neither to clay nor to sand, 

 and plenty of water in dry weather. Thus humoured, the 

 wedge-shaped flower heads expand to a great size, while 

 the individual blossoms are as large as silver dollars. If the 

 first panicle is cut off directly it is spent, the plant will 

 bloom modestly well into the autumn. Phlox plants re- 

 quire to be divided frequently. Four or five flowering 



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