OTHER FLOWERS 



back to Antoinette, I find a note recording her 

 excellent appearance in combination with phlox 

 Elizabeth Campbell; and ageratum is also charm- 

 ing with this gladiolus. With Assuerus, too, one 

 of the loveliest of all these French varieties, 

 ageratum is particularly good; a planting of phlox 

 Braga, with ageratum of a tall kind before it 

 and gladiolus Assuerus intermingled with both 

 flowers or grouped to right or to left, is an ar- 

 rangement I am not at all afraid to suggest. And 

 another beauty in these gladioli is Roi Alexandre, 

 very interesting with spiral mignonette. 



Another group sent from Ohio by Mrs. Austin, 

 of Wayland, gave me great pleasure, too. Evelyn 

 Kirtland, well known, I believe, is a flower of great 

 beauty — French chart, all tones of 126, but 

 mainly the first one on that page. Herada is of 

 the hue set down in the same chart as violet eve- 

 que, but brighter — No. 189. With Evelyn Kirt- 

 land, the comparatively new sweet pea Old Rose 

 is delightful, out of doors or in; and with Herada, 

 violet petunias, and the mauve physostegia, one 

 might form a picture truly entrancing. Three 

 gladioli together too, unusually good with each 

 other from the point of view of color, are Evelyn 

 Kirtland, Herada, and Bertrex. 



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