it over (as I usually do) after I had sent the order I 

 realized that the Superba was the tallest member of the 

 buddleia family and of an erecft and arching form, there- 

 fore the thirty inch high St. Egwin michaelmas daisies 

 would never produce the elffedt I wished. So I had to 

 decide upon something else having pink flowers as well as 

 being a taller plant. I decided on the Japanese anemone, 

 Queen Charlotte, whose fine, silvery pink semidouble blos- 

 soms would be charming assembled with the long, graceful 

 tassels of Buddleia Superba. 



^ When you consider that fifteen big roots of the buddleia, 

 each spaced in triangles five feet apart each way, needed 

 bordering as well as filling in the spaces between, the seventy- 

 five roots of Queen Charlotte anemones seemed hardly ade- 

 quate. But to make them go farther I generously allotted 

 to each root more than ample room and I was afraid even 

 then the border would appear skimped, but it did not. Quite 

 the reverse. 



^ Each anemone plant having so much room developed into 

 broad, open, splendid bushes, sending their pink flower sprays 

 up into the mauve tasseled buddleias. You know the one 

 fault of all the buddleias is their tendency to be straggly. 

 This failing was completely disguised by the fine foliage of 

 Queen Charlotte. You can picfture, I am sure, the harmonious 

 blending of the velvety-mauve of the one with the silvery 

 pink of the other. 



^ The buddleias usually Winter-kill to their root crowns, 

 ju^ as delphiniums and aconitums do, but that does n't 

 injure the roots in the lea^t. My Spring planted buddleias 

 and Japanese anemones grew into great, broad specimens 

 having the appearance of plants e^ablished there for years. 



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