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June, 1910 



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Fig. 3. Peonies with Canterberry bells are the features of this flowery scene Fig. 4. Mid-June chiefly blue and white with foamy baby breath in profusion 



the bulk of bloom,' some young syringa 

 bushes showing white back of them, and 

 sweet briar covered with fragrant pink, to 

 the right. Sweet Williams and pinks may 

 be found in the foreground with rich rose 

 pyrethrum, the sweet Williams of a dark 

 rose-red, in perfect harmony with all the 

 paler pinks near and beyond them. I may 

 say here that, like most amateurs, I have a 

 favorite color in flowers — the pink of 

 Drummond phlox, Chamois Rose, or, in 

 deeper tones, of Sweet William Sutton's 

 Pink Beauty, or the rosy-stock-flowered 

 larkspur. When I say that such and such 

 a flower is of a good warm pink, it is to the 

 tones of one or the other of these that I 

 would refer. 



On the date on which this picture of 

 peonies was made there were to be found in 

 bloom in my garden these: larkspur, Ther- 

 mopsis Caroliniana (which I grow near 

 groups of tall pale blue delphinium, and 

 which makes a lovely color effect, adding 

 lemon-colored spikes to the blue), sweet 

 Williams, Canterbury bells, peonies, Aqui- 

 legia chrysantha, Achillea ptarmica, hardy 

 campanula, pinks both annual and hardy, 

 fox-gloves, roses, annual gypsophila, com- 

 mon daisies. The latter are valuable for 

 masses of early white. I cut them to the 

 ground as soon as bloom is over, when their 

 low leaf-clumps are quickly covered by over- 

 hanging later flowers. 



The midsummer flower 

 crops are, by all odds, the 

 greatest in variety as they 

 are in luxuriance. Some 

 idea of the appearance 

 of this garden in mid-July 

 may be had by a glance 

 at Fig. 4, when the flowers 

 fully open are almost all 

 either blue or white, except 

 toward the centre of the 

 garden where delicate pink 

 tones prevail, and the fine 

 purple hardy phlox, Lord 

 Rayeigh blooms, giving 

 richness to the picture 

 and forming a combina- 

 tion of colors, blue and 

 rich purple, which is es- 

 pecially to my taste. 



The abundance of Gyp- Fig. 5. 



sophila panic ulata, var. elegans, will be 

 noted throughout the garden, and just 

 here may be recalled that delightful and 

 suggestive article by Mr. Wilhelm Miller 

 in The Garden Magazine for last Sep- 

 tember advocating the use of flowers with 

 delicate foliage and tiny blossoms as aids 

 to lightness of garden effects, not to men- 

 tion the new varieties of such flowers 

 mentioned in the article, Crambe orien- 

 talis, Rodgersia, and various unfamiliar 

 spireas. 



There are both a whiter gypsophila and a 

 grayer. The former is the variety flore 

 pleno, the latter the ordinary paniculata. 

 They are both tremendous acquisitions to 

 the garden, as their cloud-like masses of 

 bloom give a wonderfully soft look to any 

 body of flowers, beside making charming 

 settings for flowers of larger and more dis- 

 tinct form, as in Fig. 6, where Shasta daisy 

 Alaska is grown against the double gypso- 

 phila. Lilium longiflorum is a companion 

 crop of gypsophila, and I am much given 

 to planting this low-growing lily below and 

 among the gray softness of the other. In 

 bloom at the time when Fig. 5 was taken 

 were these: or possibly, it would be fairer 

 to say "Among those present" were: Del- 

 phinium, both the tall Belladonna and one 

 of a lovely blue, Cantab by name, best 

 of all larkspurs; Delphinium Chinensis, 



ze of color in midsummer with larkspur, phlox and climbing roses 



var. grandiflora in palest blues and whites; 

 quantities of achillea, valuable but too 

 aggressive as to roots to be altogether wel- 

 come in a small garden; Heuchera sanguinea, 

 var. Rosamund; heliotrope of a deep purple 

 in the four central beds of the garden near- 

 est the pool, in the centre of each heliotrope 

 bed a clump of the medium tall and early 

 perennial phlox, Lord Rayleigh, warm 

 purple (this was an experiment of my own 

 which is most satisfactory in its result), 

 baby rambler roses (Annchen Mueller), 

 and climbing roses (the garden gate at 

 the right is covered with Lady Gay). The 

 arch between upper and lower gardens has 

 young plants of Lady Gay also started 

 against its sides. 



To continue with companion crops: per- 

 ennial phlox Eugene Danzanvilliers, masses 

 of palest lavender; Physostegia Virginica, 

 var. alba, the lovely lavender-blue Stokesia 

 cyanea, Scabiosa japonica, sea - lavender 

 (Statice incana, var. Silver Cloud), stocks in 

 whites and deep purples, the annual phloxes 

 Chamois rose and lutea — the latter so nice 

 a tone of old-fashioned buff that it is useful 

 as a sort of horticultural hyphen — and a 

 charming double warm pink poppy, name- 

 less, which raises its fluffy head above its 

 blue green leaves from July till frost, and 

 brings warmth and beauty to the garden. 

 Time was when I preferred to see the 

 chamomile or anthemis, 

 spread its pale yellow 

 masses below the blue 

 delphinium spikes; but I 

 now prefer whites, or bet- 

 ter still, rich purples or 

 pale lavenders near, a 

 closer harmony of color. 

 One of the most suc- 

 cessful plantings for bold- 

 ness of effect is the one 

 beyond the low hedge of 

 the privet ibota, a detail 

 of which is seen in Fig. 8. 

 This is of lemon and white 

 hollyhocks with thick, ir- 

 regular groups of Lilium 

 candidum, upspringing be- 

 fore them. Sufficient room 

 is left between the hedge 

 and the lilies to cultivate 

 and to trim the hedge 



