MIDSUMMER POMPS 



occurs when the later mauve variety blooms, with 

 many heads of a new pale-yellow centaurea gently 

 forcing their way to the sun through the tiny 

 lavender statice blossoms. 



Gladiolus primulinus hybrids are a delight to 

 the "garden soul." Exquisite soft tones of pale 

 yellow with now and again some spikes of a pale 

 flame-pink, they are most lovely as they grow, 

 while for cutting, used with Statice honduelli and 

 the double gypsophila, nothing could be more 

 attractive. Add to your arrangement of these 

 flowers a cluster of that enchanting sweet pea, 

 Sterling Stent, you shall rejoice in what you have 

 created. Sterling Stent! I betray a valuable 

 gardening secret when I tell of him. His color, 

 according to the French chart, is Laque de Ga- 

 rance from 1 to 4 with occasional tones of Rouge 

 peche 4. Beautiful beyond description is he, and 

 he f adeth not in sun ! 



And now a word concerning a certain double 

 rose-colored annual poppy, a poppy which has 

 become a rose-pink essential to this garden. One 

 of Sutton's hollyhocks, a double pink of the exact 

 tone of these poppies (chart, all shades of Rose 

 Nilsson), has made a picture here and there, lifting 

 its tall stems set with rich pink bosses of rosy 



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