THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



a spray of the Dropmore anchusa is to get an ex- 

 tremely vivid and interesting idea of the efifect 

 of colors upon each other. Taken alone, Iris 

 xiphioides, var. Mr. Veen, is a blue without very 

 much purple in its tone; beside the anchusa all 

 the blue vanishes — the iris is a distinct purple; 

 place it beside Rossini, it becomes blue again; and 

 grow masses of Rossini below the anchusa, es- 

 pecially the variety Opal, and there is one of the 

 most beautiful juxtapositions possible in flowers 

 — so far as I know an original combination of 

 color and one to charm an artist, I believe. An- 

 chusa of a year's standing, a three-foot anchusa, 

 might be best to use in this way. The two-foot 

 iris would prove a good companion. 



There follows, soon after the gray-and-pink com- 

 bination in my garden of which I spoke a few 

 paragraphs back, the combination of pink Cam- 

 panula medium and Stachys lanaia, a time when 

 one of the loveliest of all double poppies lights up 

 the little place with color. For this poppy — an 

 annual — there is no registered name. It is dou- 

 ble, extremely full, perhaps three feet in height, and 

 of a delicious rosy-pink, exactly the pink of the 

 best mallows, or of the enchanting half-open rose- 

 buds of the ever-lovely rambler Lady Gay. To 



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