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ning: Mrs. Alan Gray, Biein Nixe, Monsignor, pallida dalmatica. 

 Queen of May, Prosper Laugier, flavescens. In phloxes, a good 

 gay choice would be these: Rhynstrom, Von Lassberg, EUzabeth 

 Campbell, Antonin Mercie, Lord Rayleigh; in the lemon lilies or 

 Hemerocallis, Florham and Kwanso flore-pleno are particularly 

 fine. Gaillardias are very good where a continuous flare of orange, 

 red, and yellow is wanted; and of all the other plants named in 

 the following list I hardly need to give varieties. Perhaps one 

 or two of each will suffice: hardy candytuft, Iberis gibraltaiica, 

 in hardy pinks; Mrs. Simkins or Her Majesty, both white; for 

 heucheras, the type known as sanguinea, and two hybrids, Rosar 

 mond and Pluie de Feu; Campanula car patica stands alone in use- 

 fulness as a low lavender flowering plant for June; Stachys lanata 

 and Nepeta Mussini are gray-leaved plants for the front of the 

 border; lavender is too well known to call for any description; 

 and of the sedums or stonecrops, Sedum spedabile is the most 

 useful to group with other hardy plants. Oriental poppies are 

 superb additions to perennial plantings; especially Mary Stud- 

 holme and Cerise Beauty. 



In discussing formal flower arrangement for the little garden, 

 the planning of flowers for small rectangular spaces, it is impossi- 

 ble to escape the practice of setting out plants in a regular fashion. 

 This leaves us open at once to the criticism of "bedding-out," 

 so called. But for certain places bedding-out is more than advis- 

 able: it is the only thing to do. On page 14 of Miss M. Agar's 

 book, "Garden Design in Theory and Practice," are three excel- 

 lent patterns for beds, which must be treated in this way with 

 flowers; and these designs, though probably meant for larger, 

 more elaborate schemes, may readily be adapted to a very small 

 place. The disadvantage of such beds is that a pattern in flowers, 

 as in wall-paper or in silks, means repeating the forms and colors; 

 and this greatly limits the variety of plants to be used. But if an 



