THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



The effect of sunlight through the cups of La 

 Fiancee and Jubilee as they stand together up a 

 little slope fairly well covered with young hem- 

 lock spruces, is exceedingly nice. The deep violet 

 of Jubilee and rich lavender-rose of La Fiancee 

 make of them excellent comrades in the border. 

 A drift of tall gold flowers stands farther up, and 

 beyond the group of spruces, which are from three 

 to ten feet high, Heloise shines in the picture with 

 one of the tallest and richest of flowers of a fine 

 deep-red. Beyond Heloise comes Herzogin von 

 Hohenberg, of a medium blue-purple tone, a won- 

 derfully valuable color in Darwins, rising from 

 quantities of myosotis; and far up the rise of 

 ground stands a group of tulip Couleur Cardinal. 

 Beyond these again, and to the right, a whole 

 colony of Tulip retroflexa gleams from among the 

 dark gray-green boughs of hemlock and of young 

 white pine. Two or three years ago some charm- 

 ing pictures in the bulb-list of Messrs. E. H. Kre- 

 lage and Sons, of Haarlem, filled me with a desire 

 to see tulips grown among evergreens. The pic- 

 tures from Holland showed this effectively done 

 for a great flower-show at Haarlem, and it seemed 

 to me that nothing could be more lovely, more 

 striking, too, in effect, than the use of bulbs 



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