A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



check at all from replanting; in fact, everything 

 we moved has prospered under the process. Even 

 the one precious plant of Delphinium Moerheimi, 

 which we divided in four with some hesitation, is 

 sending up three white-flowered stems. Phlox 

 Arendsii, in its varying soft colors of pinkish lav- 

 ender and of white, is now, July 1, in full bloom, 

 and back of its rounded groups the buds of the 

 Madonna lily, held high on their tall stems, are 

 whitening. Shasta daisies are opening below, 

 budding sea holly, and some of those luscious 

 violet petunias known as Karlsruhe Balcony are 

 blooming in secluded spots, as if to prove their 

 August and September worth. Delphinium blight, 

 which seemed to hover seriously over this garden 

 last year, has been gotten well in hand now, thanks 

 to the lime-and-tobacco treatment recommended 

 by Miss McGregor, of Springfield, Ohio. 



It is seldom that I find myself with two opinions 

 about a flower, but two I hold concerning the dwarf 

 crimson-rambler rose. That harsh crimson, al- 

 most as diflScult to place as the over-bright hue of 

 Azalea amoena in spring, and so painful to contem- 

 plate as its clusters take on the purplish hue which 

 foretells their end — the same crimson, when set 

 near the violet Salvia virgata nemorosa, becomes a 



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