A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



variety in purple height. Now pyrethums over- 

 lap upon this bloom and very good they are there- 

 with. The white polemonium and the gray- 

 leaved stachys both perform their part, with tall 

 flowering stems and foliage of the beauty peculiar 

 to such plants. White and purple stocks thickly 

 blooming, because set out in May from pots, make 

 lovely bushy foregrounds for the campanulas be- 

 fore which they stand. Stocks in violet, lavender, 

 and white only were used, the buflf foxglove, quan- 

 tities of deep-purple and clear-white petimias, 

 purple and rose-colored verbenas, with here and 

 there a dash of mignonette and white zinnia seed 

 thrown in. Already in June, imder the soft in- 

 fluence of constant rains, the garden is full to 

 overflowing with color, and never, I fondly think, 

 have transplanted flowers done so well for any 

 one. Heucheras especially flourish as not before 

 in years, all moved and divided in the autumn. 

 These, with their bright coral flowers, I admit are 

 bad with the harsh purples of the Canterbury 

 bells, but there are among the heucheras some 

 varied groups of sweet-william. Miss Jekyll's be- 

 loved darkest red and a few of the gay Newport 

 pink. The picture is irresistible, and, though it 

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