larger and finer flowers although the sterns are thinner but 

 Wronger. They appear at their be^t when planted back of 

 yellow Day Lilies for succession, with the novelty Aconitum 

 near by 33 53 



^ Among the novelties, there are some modest, dear little 

 flowers that should not be overlooked, that extraordinary 

 forget-me-not, with such an extraordinary name — Myosotis 

 Alpe^tris Stricfta Grandiflora. Is n't that an abominable 

 name for so modest a plant? This new forget-me-not with 

 the amazing name, grows columnlike in form and all its 

 twelve to fourteen inches of height are clothed with the 

 loveliest flowers. Grown with Godetia Schamini, Rosy Morn, 

 also a novelty, whose double flowers are a coral pink. These 

 hardy blue columns of forget-me-nots give an unusual finish 

 to borders 53 53 



^ I am not going to say very much about the Gerbera Jamesoni 

 hybrids grown in small group masses, and bordering self- 

 colored snapdragons, only that their " spikes " waving and 

 tossing with the round blooms of the gerbera are a delight 

 to behold 53 53 



^ Will you think me hard if 1 say that I hope some day 

 certain uncouth flowers will be even less than a memory? 

 ^ No, I am not hard, but I feel about flowers as manufacturers 

 do about machinery. If it is worthless, they discard it for 

 modern and efficient inventions. So it is with flowers. We 

 should discard the ugly, the gross and the unlovely for 

 the fine, the refined, dainty and the lovely. Why, it is our 

 zeal, our fervor, and our interest in the new and the beautiful 

 that has been the " urge " to the creators of the wealth of 

 flower wonders we have and may have which are ju^t as simple 

 of culture as the ugly ones. 



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