COLOR ARRANGEMENTS 



with me this year at the same time, and I cannot 

 but advise a trial planting of them together — 

 say a dozen of the tulips, fifty scillas, and six or 

 seven roots of the beautiful hardy alyssum, and 

 you have a picture which a true "garden soul" 

 will feel beneath the ground in winter. This could 

 be done in a spot apart, a bit of ground sacred to 

 adventures in flowers. 



And while we are on adventures in flowers, 

 may I impart a few impressions of some tulips 

 seen this spring for the first time ? Really revela- 

 tions — some of them unspeakably beautiful. 

 Coming, for instance, unexpectedly upon Tulipa 

 viridiflora was hke coming upon a specially beau- 

 tiful green-and-white trillium in a wood. This 

 tuhp has that precious look of not having been 

 evolved. Yet it is a May-flowering or cottage 

 tulip. What pleasure in a few bulbs of this 

 unique flower, in its aspect of untpuchedness ! 

 It cannot be possible, one thinks, that the deli- 

 cate bands of green up and down its palest yel- 

 low-painted petals were not set there by the skil- 

 ful eye and brush of perhaps the Japanese ! 



Tulip The Fawn, a Darwin this, was almost un- 

 believable in its beauty. No description of it in 

 print satisfies me. May I here give my own? 



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