COLOR ARRANGEMENTS 



and lavender aquilegias as does this loveliest of 

 late scillas. In appearance more like a tall lily- 

 of-the-valley than any other flower I can call to 

 mind, in tone so cool a pink that it is perfect in 

 combination with the blue, lavender, or pink col- 

 umbines. It is enchanting as their neighbor and 

 far more interesting thus used than in the more 

 commonplace proximity to its cousin or sister, 

 the lavender Scilla campanulata, var. excelsior, 

 blooming at the same time. To me it would be 

 dull to see sheets of these two spring flowers near 

 each other or intermingling. Dull, I mean, com- 

 pared with such a possibility as the combination 

 I have tried to describe and which was simply 

 one of those heavenly accidents befalling all too 

 rarely the ardent gardener. 



On this June day the buds in my garden are 

 almost as enchanting as the open flowers. Things 

 in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the 

 recollection of the loveUest days of the year — 

 those days of May when all is suggested, nothing 

 yet fulfilled. To-day I have been looking at 

 something one of these photographs feebly tries 

 to show — tall spikes of pale-pink Canterbury 

 bells, the flowers unusually large, standing against 

 a softly rounding background of gypsophila in 



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