56 THE LITTLE GARDEN 



Salvia patens, a lovely true blue, but not very effective in the 

 garden, and Salvia farinacea, are flowers that add much to one's 

 summer pleasure; the last-named is particularly lovely and easily 

 grown. Zinnias are our faithful friends, and a new one from 

 Vaughan's, Isabellina by name, has a charming hue, buff, which 

 gives it a special place in all good flower-plantings to-day. 

 Clarkias and godetias are wonderfully fine annual flowers; 

 these are to be had in splendid tones of rose-color and in white. 



Annuals are endless in variety and loveliness. Lavatera splen- 

 dens. Sunset, is a magnificent flower. This mallow is one of the 

 finest of all garden subjects, but it must have two or three feet 

 to spread in. Of annual poppies one hardly needs to speak; the 

 Shirley poppies, and the great double varieties with blue-green 

 foliage, are capital in their time. 



Sweet peas in rainbow hues may float about other flowers, if 

 plants grown to a foot in pots are set among perennials and 

 annuals; and this is no experiment, but a tried and lovely plant- 

 ing. Imagination fails before the pictures which may here be 

 arranged, the enchanting relations of color to be established 

 through this one placing of a delicate, effective annual. Nemesia, 

 schizanthus, phacelia, are all commonly used in English gardens, 

 and are beginning to be rather generally grown in our own. 



The list of yellows may well begin with Iceland poppy and end, 

 as the season does, with marigold and zinnia; between these dates 

 comes a long golden procession: calendula, dimorphotheca, gail- 

 lardia, nasturtium, Oenothera (the evening primrose), salpiglos- 

 sis in its yellow variety; Sanvitalia procumbens, a lovely little 

 plant with orange-colored flowers in constant bloom; Statice 

 sinuata Bonduelli with its pale-yellow straw-like flowers; the 

 annual chrysanthemums. Morning Star and their kind; the an- 

 nual dwarf sunflowers, such as Primrose Queen; and, finally, the 

 marigold and the ziimia. Whites are represented in this list by 



