A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



ing from tawny orange through deep and pale 

 yellow to ivory white — flowers double, flowers 

 single, flowers tall, slender, graceful, flowers round 

 and heavy-headed. Little art is required to gain 

 such effects. The most careless planting of these 

 particular varieties of bulbs must result beauti- 

 fully. A little thought for the progression of 

 color, a little watchfulness as to overcrowding or 

 setting too far apart — that is all. 



But I am in danger of being led astray by the 

 beauty of individual flowers, and must return to 

 the border planting of the walk long enough to 

 say that when the flowers last named have finished 

 blooming, when their leaves in turn carpet the 

 ground in patterns of blue-greens and yellow- 

 greens, then we begin to see for the first time the 

 spires of buds on the rounded and synametrical 

 Canterbury bells on either side of the walk. These 

 are three feet apart, and as their buds develop we 

 see that they are white upon the south side of the 

 walk and light purple on the north; and a third 

 even row to the north of the barberries is all of 

 that good pink tone which is to me the very best 

 in these flowers. From crocuses to Canterbury 

 bells is a long way in spring and early summer. 

 Yet one must remember that if there happened 



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