A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



handsome lavender, never seen to better advan- 

 tage than when blue delphiniums' lingering blooms 

 lift their heads back of it. Below this pair is a 

 very slender small hemerocallis, of a specially 

 pale yellow, and lower again a pale calendula. 

 This is an uncommonly good group, and phlox is 

 its backbone. In considering the forms of phlox 

 groups, I am tempted to use terms commonly 

 applied to the contour of hills. For example, 

 from where I sit three fine varieties form a good 

 picture in flowers. Tapis Blanc is the foremost; 

 to the left and higher is a rounding peak of the 

 large-flowered lavender Antonin Mercie, and be- 

 tween these and slightly to the left, a fine flower- 

 ing plant of Widar, rich mauve. This forms a 

 shoulder in my hills of flowers, and as these soft 

 colors rise above each other in noble profusion, 

 nothing in plants can give more pleasure. Eliza- 

 beth Campbell's perfect pink now shows itself in 

 pointed panicles near Lilium regale. Below Tapis 

 Blanc, — which, by the way, is most telling this 

 year in texture and size of its pure flowers, — 

 below this, white phlox in four places, a beauti- 

 ful lavender-blue ever-blooming campanula, var. 

 alliarioefolia, from Miss Willmott's seed, is fair to 

 look upon from now till frost. The wondrous Re- 

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