grandiflora blue and also grandiflora white, you 

 will see them in delightful company. These two 

 bellflowers are refreshingly lovely and so easily 

 raised from seed, and are with the exception of the 

 towering pyramidalis, the finest of all their family. 

 They are two feet tall and the clear blue and snow 

 white blossoms in June and July lend great beauty 

 to the perennial border. I am fond of the bellflower 

 grandis too, with its violet-blue, round, abundant 

 flowers near pink lilies. Seed of all the bellflowers 

 one may have, even of the baby Carpatica blue 

 and Carpatica white (Carpathian harebell) and 

 the clustered Glomerata superba. Very handsome 

 they are, too, near pink and mauve phlox. The 

 round violet-blue umbels are a handsome foil of 

 pink and mauve all through July and August. 

 ^ We should have a great many canterbury bells 

 in pink, blue and white to bloom with our Ma- 

 donna lilies. They are very lovely. So are the Pla- 

 tycodons, both the tall blue and tall white and 

 dainty Mariesi, a bewitching little twelve inch 

 border plant of clear blue. Sow seed of that radiant 

 golden primrose (Golden English Primrose) to 

 plant near it in the border and when you cut 

 sprays of blue mariesi, cut also sprays of Golden 

 English primrose and arrange them together. 

 ^ There are many other exquisite primroses you 

 should grow from seed sown in Summer. There are 

 the auriculas a race of primroses whose large, 

 velvety flower umbels are in many shades of gold, 

 wine-red, crimson and purple. Besides this fine 

 strain we have the japonicas which I think are the 



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