LATER FLOWERS 



lilac leaves as the tracery of frost upon the win- 

 dow-pane in January. The color of the flowers, 

 a greenish white, is lovely in itself. And for cut- 

 ting, an association much to my liking is that of 

 this artemisia with Gladiolus ■primulinus hybrids, 

 or with one of these, new here this season, well 

 named Tawny. 



A lovely sequence of taller and lower plants is 

 physostegia, phlox Mme. P. Dutrie, phlox Eliza- 

 beth Campbell, with flesh-pink balsams below and 

 a sky-blue lobelia from Sutton's seed to finish the 

 group. Somewhere to the left of these, Lycoris 

 squamigera, which blooms, it is true, when the 

 phloxes are a bit past their best, gives lovely 

 neighboring color, with a great contrast in form 

 of flower. The second bloom of my phloxes has 

 been this year phenomenal — Antonin Mercie has 

 such enormous florets and so many; Elizabeth 

 Campbell has done as well; Tapis Blanc is again 

 a mound of purest white. A September group is 

 of pale-yellow calendulas' strata of bloom, with a 

 dwarf flame-colored zinnia gaily holding forth be- 

 fore it, white phlox Mrs. Jenkins above, and 

 nestling at the roots of the phlox a low second 

 bloom of the fine lavender Campanula latifolia. 

 Speaking of zinnias it may be noticed that Squa- 



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