A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



that magic phrase ! — I shall let the charming 

 perennial digitalis stand below C. ladiflora, for 

 the pale straw-yellow spikes of foxglove are lovely 

 with the latter's purple bells. 



Look for one moment toward that lovely bit of 

 color in flowers lightly raised above a group of 

 white Campanula persicifolia; it is a delicate pic- 

 ture of palest blue and cool pink. Three plants 

 from pots, of the fine sweet pea Henry Ohn, were 

 set among these Delphinium belladonnas in late 

 May. Now these sweet peas have really the effect 

 of rose-colored butterflies fluttering about the 

 blue lengths of the delphinium. The wet season 

 did much for this happy achievement, I am con- 

 vinced. The sweet pea, with its love for coolness 

 and for water, has vigorously responded to this 

 type of summer weather, and the result is lovely 

 beyond words. In the autumn of 1920 this gar- 

 den was entirely refilled with fresh soil from an 

 old meadow-bottom, and all the plants reset. 

 Perennials were divided; peonies, delphiniums, 

 phloxes, mercilessly separated or chopped apart; 

 small bits replaced in ordered groups; there seemed 

 to be endless vacant spaces. When we were reset- 

 ting the pieces of perennial roots, spacing them 

 for the most part a foot to eighteen inches apart, 



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