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which is blue and which is lavender in flowers. Let us consider, 

 however, what subjects may suitably be used in a little gar- 

 den of so-called blue flowers; and in naming these, I shaU first 

 say which I think blue, then give others which most people, 

 including most seedsmen, call blue, but all of which are 

 really lavender, mauve, or violet. For true blues use myosotis 

 or forget-me-not; delphinium of blue tones, particularly. Del- 

 phinium belladonna; some of the taller named varieties, such as 

 Capri, and King of the Blues; the lower perennial Delphinium 

 sinensis; cornflowers, including Dreer's Double; Salvia patens, a 

 pretty clear blue annual; Nemophila insignis, successful in warm 

 climates; certain lobelias easilyfound in seed-catalogues ;^ncAMsa 

 italica, the Dropmore variety; Nigella Miss Jekyll, another an- 

 nual. These are blue. To associate with them are hosts of other 

 flowers of related tones: violas, Canterbury bells, in lavender 

 and purple. Campanula lactiflora. Campanula latifolia. Cam- 

 panulas persicifolia and carpatica, all fine occupants of a border; 

 annual larkspur in lavender and mauve; ageratum, annual asters, 

 aconites, petunias, verbenas, and the great families of hardy 

 asters and phloxes in the colors under consideration. 



These are some of the flowers bearing the name of blue that 

 may be used in gardens. But no garden of one color, it seems to 

 me, can ever be reaUy effective without some added use of creamy 

 or clear white flowers. In the case of a pink garden, fit substi- 

 tutes for white might be found in the misty blues of eryngium 

 and echinops, and in the lovely lavenders of ageratum; but in 

 the blue garden the cream-white zinnia, gypsophilas, single and 

 double, white lilacs — aU are aids to beauty. There is no doubt 

 that a garden of blue flowers is particularly good when it can be 

 placed against the blue of a distant landscape. A pretty illus- 

 tration of this is seen on the cover of Sutton and Sons' seed-list 

 for 1921. Here in this small picture is as good a suggestion as 



