uncommon ten inch border plants they are! Farquhar*s 

 Double Lilac and Double Rose are charming in waved and 

 undulating lines in the perennial garden, and we have the 

 novelty Rosy Morn, a clear fine coral-pink bearing double 

 flowers on pretty, waving sprays. It is quite di^indlive in 

 color and in grace from all other godetias. 

 ^ I wish you could have seen it as I did bordering a line of 

 soft, buff-cre^ed, tuberous-rooted, created begonias, whose 

 long, firm, almost transparent ^ems held aloft the remark- 

 able flowers, the petals seeming more like porcelain than 

 anything else. These begonias are very formal, stately flowers, 

 and their somewhat hard beauty was softened and enhanced 

 by the Rosy Morn godetias, with gentle, lovable, blue and 

 mauve and gold tufted pansies (Viola Cornuta) in neighborly 

 groups pressing close to the godetias. 



LANTANA AND VIOLAS 



^ Why is there such indifference on the part of the aver- 

 age professional gardener to the unique, the uncommon? 

 Why do we see Summer after Summer the same flowers, 

 in the same bed and in the same borders, with never a thought 

 for new and better effe(fts and greater beauty that is naturally 

 and easily obtainable with the finer flowers? I am not com- 

 menting light-heartedly on this fadt. Indeed I feel quite 

 unhappy because of the neglec5t of some of the loveliest of 

 our flowers, and I heartily wish that plants like the great 

 ** striped " and " blotched " and " mottled " petunias would 

 make way for such valuable hybrids as the lantanas, etc. 

 that are so charming, so unusual. 



^ To those who know them not I can only describe lantanas 



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