COMPANION CROPS 



elegans, will be noted throughout the garden, and 

 just here may be recalled that dehghtful and sug- 

 gestive article by Mr. Wilhelm Miller in "The 

 Garden Magazine" for September, 1909, advo- 

 cating the use of flowers with delicate foliage and 

 tiny blossoms as aids to lightness of garden ef- 

 fects, not to mention the new varieties of such 

 flowers mentioned in the article, Crambe orientalis, 

 Rodgersia, and various unfamiliar spireas. 



There are both a whiter gypsophila and a 

 grayer. The former is the variety flore pleno, the 

 latter the ordinary paniculata. They are both 

 tremendous acquisitions to the garden, as their 

 cloudhke masses of bloom give a wonderfully 

 soft look to any body of flowers, besides making 

 charming settings for flowers of larger and more 

 distinct form, as in cut (page 28), where Shasta 

 daisy Alaska is grown against the double gypso- 

 phila. Lilium longifiorum is a companion crop of 

 gypsophila, and I am much given to planting this 

 low-growing lily below and among the gray soft- 

 ness of the other. In bloom when the garden was 

 a blaze of color in midsummer were these — or, pos- 

 sibly, it is fairer to say, "Among those present": 

 Delphiniiun, both the tall Belladonna and one of 

 a lovely blue, Cantab by name, best of all lark- 



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