BEDS AND WALKS 



factory when used with pale rose Phlox Drum- 

 mondi, or the soft yellow shades of that flower. 

 Combine the three colors in a bed and you will 

 have something imusually dainty and delightful. 

 One of the prettiest beds I saw last summer was 

 filled with Sweet Alyssum, and edged with 

 Ageratum. If there was any unfavorable criti- 

 cism to be made, it was that a touch of some 

 brighter, stronger color was needed to relieve its 

 white and lavender. A free-flowering rose-col- 

 ored .Geranium in its centre, or a pink Verbena, 

 would have added much to the general effect, I 

 fancy. As it was, it was suggestive of old blue- 

 and-white Delft, and the collector of that ware 

 would have gone into raptures over it. 



For a permanent edging, for beds, paths, and 

 the border, Bellis perennis, whose popular name 

 is English Daisy, is one of the best of all plants. 

 It is entirely hardy. It blooms early in the 

 season. It is wonderfully generous in its pro- 

 duction of flowers. These are small, and very 

 double, some pink, some almost white, produced 

 on short stems which keep them close to the 

 ground and prevent them from straggling. Its 

 thick, bright green foliage furnishes a charming 

 background against which the blossoms display 

 themselves effectively. It is a plant that does 

 well everywhere, and is always on good terms 



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