THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



patches of color, in the main, should be well de- 

 fined. In fact, I prefer a large sheet of each color 

 to several smaller groups with a resultant spotty- 

 effect. To my thinking, it is impossible to im- 

 agine a finer early spring effect in either a small 

 or a large place than these two bulbs in these two 

 varieties to the exclusion of all else. 



The dwarf Iris reticulata — which should be 

 better known, as no early bulb is hardier, richer 

 in color and in scent — with its deep violet-purple 

 flowers, planted closely in large masses, with 

 spreading groups of Scilla near by, would produce 

 an effect of blue and purple nearly Uke that above 

 described. 



PINK, lAVENDEB, AND CBEAM- WHITE — MAY 



A fine effect for late May, that has rejoiced 

 my eye for some years, is shown facing page 16. 

 The flowers form the front of a shrubbery border 

 composed entirely of Lemoine's lilacs in such va- 

 rieties as Marie le Graye (white), Charles X 

 (deep purplish-red), Madame Abel Chatenay 

 (double, white). President Grevy (double, blue), 

 Emile Lemoine (double, pinkish), and Azurea 

 (light blue). While these are at their best, droop- 

 ing sprays of bleeding-heart (dicentra) show their 



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