A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



rose flower, smoked as one might say with dull 

 lavender, complete a group of flowers, the work of 

 the great artist of Lorraine. Diane is a delicious 

 flower, white, very elegant of form, with a sulphur- 

 yellow throat; Marquis de Canif has the markings 

 of a white carnation, with carmine flakes at the 

 edge of the fine white petals, and a suffusion of 

 sulphur-yeUow in the throat. This flower is of 

 remarkable beauty, and one of its attractions lies 

 in its broadly frilled edges. Platon is one of the 

 bright, rosy mauves, an immense and lovely 

 flower, pale sulphur-yellow again in the throat 

 here. In Charles Berthier is a lighter tone of the 

 same hue, a pure magenta. Here we find a friUed 

 and flaked edge, the flakes of the same color, but 

 darker. Great elegance of form is a characteristic 

 of all these flowers. They sit their stems as 

 lightly as a bird the bough. 



Two very pale, cool pinks, superbly marked, are 

 Lutetia and LTnnocence. Why the last should be 

 so named is a mystery, except for the deep blush 

 accompanying the quality in old romances. The 

 flower is of a cool blush-pink with dazzling flakes 

 of Tyrian rose, French chart 155, at the edge of 

 all flowers. This is a much-marked gladiolus, and 

 extremely striking, Lutetia has an immense indi- 



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