A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



puts it — "each one tented in its little pavilion of 

 green." The myosotis and the convallaria have 

 naturaUzed themselves, run into each other, pink 

 tulips and dicentra overhanging. 



As I sit on the little platform, of a June after- 

 noon, looking through the tracery of apple-leaves 

 to the bright garden beyond, I am struck by the 

 vast improvement made this year by the introduc- 

 tion of valerian in eight balanced spaces; especially 

 bold and good is this because its silvery flowers 

 rise beside spires equally tall of the purple Cam- 

 panula lactiflora, also in full flower. Geranium 

 grandiflorum's low rounds of brilliant violet flowers 

 form a lovely foreground from where I look, for 

 these two taller subjects. This year I have the 

 hardy campanula all over my garden. It is only 

 three feet tall at present, due to fall moving, and 

 next year it will probably exceed height limits — 

 but for the present it is giving a most lovely effect. 

 The clear-cut flowers, the fine pointed, upright 

 buds, the uniform bright color of the flowers — 

 these attributes make this perennial campanula 

 valuable. Through a series of mishaps I have 

 this year no Canterbury bells, but they are hardly 

 missed, thanks to this vivid substitute from their 

 own tribe. As Campanula lactiflora grows old, as 



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