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From early spring till late fall this garden is a constant show of flowers in changing harmonies of color 



which is but two feet high. And when 

 these tall pale flowers open the, alas, 

 rusty growth of leaves at the base of the 

 hollyhock stalks, and the yellowing leaves 

 of the lily stems hidden by the trim dark 

 hedge, the effect from the garden itself is 

 surprisingly good. Numberless combina- 

 tions of all these flowers, which bloom at the 

 same time, suggest themselves, an infinite 

 variety. Three plants which bloom in mid- 

 July are the necessary and beautiful pink 

 verbena, Beauty of Oxford, and the snap- 

 dragons in the fine new tones called pink, 

 carmine pink and coral red; also that ex- 

 quisite flower, Clarkia elegans, in the var- 

 iety known as Sutton's double salmon, 

 one of the most graceful and remarkably 



Fig. 6. Shasta daisy and double baby-breath sup- 

 port each other in a gray-white harmony 



pretty annuals which has ever come beneath 

 my eye. Love-in-the-mist blooms now, and 

 the best variety, Miss Jekyll, is exceedingly 

 pretty and valuable. 



A list of companion crops for August most 

 naturally begins with perennial phloxes; 

 in my case, Pantheon, used very freely; 

 Aurore Boreale, Fernando Cortez (won- 

 derful brilliant coppery-pink) a very little 

 Coquelicot, used in conjunction with sea-; 

 holly, white phloxes Van Lassburg and 

 Fiancee, zinnia in light flesh tones, the good 

 lavender-pink physostegia (Virginica rosea), 

 sea-holly, stocks, and dianthus of the vari- 

 ety Salmon Queen. 



There is hardly space left in which to 

 mention the flower crops which enrich Sep- 

 tember with color. But no list of the flow- 

 ers of that month should begin with the name 

 of anything less lovely than the tall, exquisite 

 pale-blue Salvia patens. Called a tender 

 perennial, I have found it entirely hardy; 

 and the sudden blooming of a pale blue 

 flower spike in early autumn is as welcome 

 as it is surprising. Second to this I place 

 the hardy aster or Michaelmas Daisy, now 

 to be had in many-named varieties and form- 

 ing, with the salvia just named, a rare 

 combination- of light colors. My hardy 

 asters thus far have been practically two, 

 Pulcherrima and Coombe Fishacre, two 

 weeks later; this gives me four weeks of 

 lavender bloom in September and October. 

 The accommodating gladiolus which, as 

 everyone knows, will bloom whenever one 

 plans to have it, is a treasure now. America, 



which has so much lavender in its pink, is ex- 

 ceeding fair in combination with either of these 

 hardy asters; and when spikes of the salvia are 

 added to a mass of these two flowers of which 

 I have just spoken, you have one of the love- 

 liest imaginable companion crops of flowers. 

 A prospective combination not yet tried but 

 which I am counting upon this season is blue 

 lyme grass (Elymus arenarius) with Chamois 

 Rose Phlox Drummondi below it and back 

 of it gladiolus William Falconer. The lyme 

 grass has much blue in its leaves, and so has 

 the gladiolus; so there should be excellent 

 harmonies of both foliage and flower. 



Fig. 7. 



Madonna lilies with lemon-yellow 

 white hollyhocks 



and 



