THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



the walk are peonies of white and palest pink — 

 Madame Emile Galle, that flower of enchant- 

 ment predominating. Next the peonies toward 

 the walk, comes a row of Iris pallida Dalmatica, 

 then an alternating line of Iris Kaempferi and 

 Spirea astilbe Arendsii Die Walkiire; next these 

 the Darwin tulip Agneta planted alternately with 

 English iris Mauve Queen; then the double early 

 tulip Yellow Rose with myosotis. 



Bleu Celeste, the double early tulip which Miss 

 Jekyll calls the bluest of tulips, was to have 

 bloomed with the vivid flower of tulip Yellow Rose. 

 But because of Miss Jekyll's commendation of 

 Bleu Celeste, or possibly for the more prosaic 

 reason of crop failure in Holland, my very late 

 order remained unfilled, and Mr. Van Tubergen 

 substituted for it the Darwin Agneta. This, he 

 assures me, is nearly the color of Bleu Celeste. 

 Alas ! unfortunately for me, Agneta blooms after 

 Yellow Rose, thus I may not look for the lovely 

 bands of clear yellow and dull blue which were 

 to have adorned my border in early May, Close 

 to the brick itself are mounds of Myosotis dissiti- 

 flora and Sutton's Royal Blue, an early and a 

 late, while back of these are lines of Alyssum sul- 

 phureum, the hardy one of primrose-yellow. 



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