COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



pink colour of St. Egwin and the latter is a tone or two 

 paler. Leaving out Mrs. Perry, the other three give a 

 charming scale of colour. Mrs. Perry Improved is at least 

 two tones deeper than St. Egwin. With these one may 

 plant much soft gray foliage, Lyme Grass and Stachys, Rue 

 and Lavender Cotton, and venture now and then a sheaf 

 of sky-blue Salvia azurea or S. uliginosa, white Japanese 

 Windflowers, and some groups of Aconitum Wilsoni. Still 

 deeper in the pink scale is Aster novae-angliae rubra which 

 is improved in Mrs. J. F. Raynor. These flowers, that 

 approach magenta in colour, are lovely planted among the 

 fleecy Boltonias, the tall stiff stems reaching well up among 

 the crowding white blossoms. 



Of the clear lavender sorts perhaps nothing finer has yet 

 been produced than Feltham Blue of the New York Aster 

 or novi-belgii type, though the newer Climax has many 

 admirers. Top Sawyer, Robert Parker, and the later 

 flowering Chapmani are tall-growing old sorts full of grace 

 and soft-coloured beauty, and some of the laevis group 

 have a spraylike growth that is very attractive. Gertrude 

 is rather dwarf and most floriferous, and Perry's Blue with 

 erect, dark stems showing through a haze of lavender bloom 

 is not to be dispensed with. We might add T. S. Ware, the 

 Hon. Edith Gibbs, King Edward the Seventh, and the two 

 double sorts — Beauty of Colwall and Glory of Colwall, and 

 not be overstocked. 



Of the strong purple sorts there is, of course, our native 

 novae-angliae, but far better are Melpomene and Rycroft 

 Purple, both of the same group; and F. W. Burbidge be- 

 longing to the New York Starworts. 



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