EARLIER FLOWERS 



I thought with pleasure of the room I should have 

 for annuals this year; more than ever before, for 

 I said: "These roughly treated things will not 

 do well next summer; I hardly expect any of them 

 to bloom. If they live and show green I shall be 

 grateful." Never was there a more complete sur- 

 prise, or series of surprises; for, owing to a season 

 of unprecedented rains and to the influence of the 

 fresh earth, the subjects in the garden have out- 

 done themselves. All winter, as I have said, I 

 dreamed of the pleasure it would be to give an- 

 nuals pride of place. Many Canterbury bells 

 were distributed in balanced color groups in Sep- 

 tember, and the beautiful heliotrope Elizabeth 

 Dennison, the prize-winner of the San Francisco 

 Exposition, was liberally planted this spring. A 

 rearrangement of color was planned, the intention 

 for midsummer and late season, a time of mauve, 

 violet, and white flowers — for earliest blooming 

 the salmon-pinks and lavenders of a color plan 

 not new to me or to most gardens; Oriental pop- 

 pies. Iris pallida dalmatica, and lupines of bluish 

 lavender; this shifting to an early July effect to 

 be secured by the lavish use of Canterbury bells 

 in the three pure hues of violet, cool pink, and 

 white, with the tall Campanula lactiflora to give 



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