best of all and the most graceful with their erect 

 strong stems with whorls of flowers in tiers in every 

 shadeof pink, mauve, crimson and white.They grow 

 fifteen to eighteen inches high, they are all perfectly 

 hardy and seed may be had from anygood seedhouse. 

 ^ Please start seed of the sweet blue gentian and 

 surround them with maiden-hair ferns where it is 

 shaded and moist. The true blue gentian is named 

 Gentiana-Acaulis and when ordering the seed it 

 should be done under that name. 

 ^ Sweet lavender we may also grow from seed. 

 These pretty blue flowers are so fragrant through 

 July and August. Then there are the delicate 

 feathery Linums perenne (Flax), a lovely blue 

 and white variety which may be kept ablooming 

 all Summer if the plants are cut down one-half. 

 ^ Plant masses of the linums near Lady RoUe- 

 ston, a pure golden gaillardia, a variety absolutely 

 self-color, not a vestige of mahogany or red mars 

 it. The splendid flowers and shapely plants are an 

 innovation and one we needed very much. Lady 

 Rolleston is the mo^ desirable gaillardia for the 

 perennial borders as it harmonizes with every 

 shade of blue, lavender, mauve and white flowers 

 and blooms right through the Summer to late 

 Autumn. It is especially attractive with the veron- 

 icas, particularly when little Veronica incana sep- 

 arates masses of linums. This is really a delightful, 

 low growing (one foot high) member of the veronica 

 family, with its silvery foliage and dainty spires of 

 lavender-blue flowers, that desirable tone we all 

 admire. 



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