LATER FLOWERS 



pale-blue Salvia azurea flourishes to the right of 

 the artemisia bloom. Below these three tall 

 plants pale-pink zinnias create a delicate fore- 

 ground for the taller group. Where the artemisias 

 stand they are at their best; poplars back of them, 

 before them groups of lower flowers or foliage. 

 They have such space as allows them to spread 

 till the plant is of a loose fan-shape. No pearls 

 of orient would I take for the pearls of the arte- 

 misia, strung in creamy beauty along their 

 delicate spraying stems. They have a grace un- 

 matched by any other flowers of early September. 

 I have long had this artemisia in the garden, but 

 always too near other plants. Not till I saw this 

 in my neighbor's charming beds did I realize its 

 ultimate loveliness, the added beauty given it 

 by perfect freedom. Its picture is shown op- 

 posite page 116 and again opposite page 246, where 

 it appears beyond the double rose-pink poppy, 

 whose seed I always save in quantity. Unfortu- 

 nately, its graceful top is cut off in the first picture, 

 but the pretty habit of growth and bloom is there. 

 The sunflower open below it is of the very palest 

 yellow; it is Sutton's Primrose Queen, an annual; 

 and the cluster of lily-like bloom to the left is 

 Lycoris Squamigera, in tones of lavender and of 



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