A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



perfect background for the strong leaves of the 

 yuccas which raise themselves against it. Here 

 color plays a most important part. The flowers 

 are mainly perennial. The scheme of color is pale 

 blue, pale yellow, white, and gray. Foliage plants 

 at the ends, and here and there in the borders, 

 supply the last. For the blue-flowering plants, or 

 rather plants with some blue in them. Campanula 

 lactiflora is used, and some of the bluish spider- 

 worts, also Agathea eoelestis, and the blue lobelia. 

 These replace the blues of earlier delphiniums and 

 anchusas. Among the gray-leaved plants Eryn- 

 gium oliverianum, rue with a pale-yellow bloom, 

 sea-kale, and such lower things as Stachys lanata. 

 Cineraria maritima create delicate effects as foils 

 for color. The yellows are the flowers of snap- 

 dragons, Thalictrum flavum, a golden privet judi- 

 ciously set, tall yellow mulleins, and, delightful to 

 record, as all that this plant needs is a proper use 

 to make it everywhere charming, pale yeUow 

 cannas. White is brought into the border by 

 means of snapdragons, the white everlasting pea, 

 trained over old delphinium stalks, double meadow- 

 sweet. Clematis recta, cleverly staked, and the 

 flowers of the yucca, rising majestic from the rest. 

 The middle portions of this July border on either 



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