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early summer when sweet William, early columbines, violas, — 

 bleeding heart is a contemporary of tulips, — pyrethrums, Ger- 

 man irises, the early Campanula persicifolia, and cornflowers, 

 bloom. Following these come anchusa, lupine, Canterbury bell, 

 foxglove, quickly succeeded by more blue in delphinium {Achillea 

 for white, Anthemis tinctoria for yellow), gaillardia, annual 

 candytuft, and lychnis, if scarlet is desired. As these flowers wax 

 and wane, another group succeeds, of which hollyhocks are the 

 most notable; with early phloxes of the kind known as Arendsii to 

 start the train of fine phlox bloom. Many annual flowers will 

 now be appearing, to fill spaces and to give strength and variety 

 to the color of the whole. There are at various periods, opening 

 their buds among perennials, these: Gypsofhila paniculata, the 

 two misty blue subjects, so good for every garden, Echinops ritro 

 and Eryngium amethystinum; Veronica longifolia suhsessilis, a 

 very effective purple; Statice latifolia, a darker purple; and that 

 whole magnificent tribe of Phlox decussata, the tall, medium, and 

 dwarf hardy phloxes, which Joseph might have envied, though 

 owning his marvelous coat. 



And now the garden grows like autumn itself, more golden and 

 more purple; for with the annual asters come the hardy ones in 

 all their splendor: rudbeckia, helianthus, helenium, boltonia 

 (tall, delicate white) ; for mauve, Sedum spectabile; and for a blue. 

 Salvia azurea, which blooms for me delightfully in early Sep- 

 tember. Later than this, where frost does not reach them, bloom 

 the fine Japanese anemones, Geant des Blanches, surely the 

 finest; and still later, the aconites, that good Wilsonii being the 

 best form to buy. While these excellent hardy plants produce 

 their glow of flowers, their humbler companions, the annuals, 

 are, if proper treatment has been given them, also doing their 

 duty. The pink verbena. Beauty of Oxford, has been softly flow- 

 ering below a violet petunia — Carlsruhe Balcony, for example; 



