COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Forget-me-nots and white Tulip Queen of Whites. 

 Forget-me-nots and rose Tulip Flamingo. 

 Forget-me-nots and yellow Tulip Golden King. 

 Arabis and blue Hyacinth Czar Peter. 

 Arabis and Tulip Joost von Vondle. 

 Primula polyanthus, and Tulip Thomas Moore. 

 Primula polyanthus and Forget-me-nots. 

 English Daisies and Pansies. 

 English Daisies and pink Tulips. 



While I am certainly for bedding out within certain 

 limits and with certain plants, I am all against it done in 

 those plants that once made up the "turgid mosaics" against 

 which Maeterlinck writes so feelingly. Here is the taboo list : 

 Alternanthera, Caladiums, Caster-oil Plants, Dracaena indi- 

 visa, Coleus, Coxcomb, Cannas, Cupheas, Abutilon Savitzii 

 and Achyranthes, Acalypha, Begonia Rex, Crotons and 

 Echeveria. Lantanas were favourite bedding plants of yore. 

 I remember that my father always stood out for two 

 lozenge-shaped beds of Lantanas on the terrace in front of 

 our old stone house, and how he gloried in their vivacious 

 colours and ignored their terrible odour. This peculiarly 

 sickening odour is as fresh in my memory as when I vainly 

 strove to share my mother's gently amused tolerance of my 

 father's favourites. I have not seen Lantanas since we 

 closed the gate upon the dear Maryland garden, but some- 

 one must still be setting them out in lozenge-shaped beds, 

 for they are to be found in all the plantsmen's lists of 

 bedding plants to-day. 



Without resorting to the taboo list there is much good 

 material at hand for use in summer bedding. I am very 

 fond of Geraniums, myself. There is much beauty in their 



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