A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



crowning beauty on the garden's brow. No finer 

 perennial plant for late June in our latitude can 

 there be than this purple salvia. Entirely hardy, 

 its inflorescence a multitude of upright spikes of 

 small violet flowers, it has the effect of violet vel- 

 vet in certain lights. Observing it on sunless 

 days, when its color seems even richer than in 

 brilliant light, I am reminded of the mention of 

 the use of blue flowers in shade in Hubbard and 

 Kimball's "An Introduction to the Study of 

 Landscape Design." 



In flowering shrubs and particularly in flowering herba- 

 ceous plants the landscape-designer has his greatest oppor- 

 tunity in the use of color. In these materials he finds as 

 wide a color range as the painter has; indeed, in some ways 

 a wider range, for he may use, on the one hand, a pure 

 white hly or a crimson cardinal flower or a flame azalea 

 in sunshine, and on the other the deep-blue larkspur or 

 monkshood in heavy shade. 



Its glory, nowever, reaches a great height when 

 the dwarf crimson rambler neighbors it. These 

 plants, like happy lovers, seem made for each 

 other. The rose and the salvia coincide in time 

 of bloom. There is an agreeable contrast in the 

 forms of leaf and flower masses, and no sumptuous 

 velvet cloak of a Venetian doge could show a 



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