peach-pink color. One might suppose so huge a 

 spire would be ungraceful, but the spires of all the 

 eremuri are of exceeding grace. Robu^us blooms in 

 June. Bungei has citron-gold spires and Hima- 

 laicus pure white. The seed can be sown just so 

 soon as ripe in frames or flats the same as any 

 other seed and transplanted the same as other 

 seedlings. The time of waiting is rather long but 

 well worth while. Get seed from your own plants 

 if you grow eremurus. If you do not there are two 

 or three specialists who supply it and physostegia 

 seed, both the soft pink and the white for tall, late 

 Summer flowers. 



^ Seed of the tender blue salvias must not be for- 

 gotten or the single, fine clear pink, Sweet William, 

 you will hardly care to grow the other Sweet Wil- 

 liams when you see this superior sort. We need the 

 Lobelia cardinalis too in our borders, the true car- 

 dinal red is harmonious with all the blue flowers 

 and the seed is supplied by all good seed houses. 

 There seems to be a growing prejudice against red 

 among amateur gardeners and I am sorry, be- 

 cause a certain amount is necessary to round out 

 the perennial border which would be insipid and 

 incomplete without it. Where only esthetic value 

 is striven for, then red can be omitted, as in the 

 pastel border, the white and gold garden or the 

 ethereal border, but in a conventional herbaceous 

 one, red is as important a factor as blue and gold, 

 only it must be used with constraint. 

 ^ Lobelia cardinalis is one of the reds we need. The 

 form is a slender graceful spire over two feet high. 



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