and because of their strikiug freshness and amazingly abundant 

 flowers in the very liottest and dryest part of Summer, they are 

 Ijraiseworthy and truly unrivalled, and like the heliotrope, the 

 burning suns are responsible for their splendor. For making^ 

 immensely long borders, for covering great areas, ^\e can possess- 

 nothing more effective than these thirty-inch tall Lavateras, and 

 if 3'ou Avould enjoy an enduringiy beautiful flower frame may I 

 ask 3^ou to make it Avith the silvery pink Lavatera bordered with 

 deep lavender heliotrope? From this border you may cut daily 

 all the flowers you desire. I am reluctant to say again what I 

 have so often said, that the more you cut your annual flowers the 

 more flowers you will have to cut, for, as you realize, it is the cut- 

 ting that keeps them freshly green as to their foliage and makes 

 them radiant Avitli bright, alive appearing flowers, and, Avhat is 

 more, this cutting also prevents them from becoming straggly or 

 lanky. 



Unfortunately, as there is but a small family group of Lava- 

 teras — two pink varieties and two white — I can only suggest 

 growing Lavatera Eosea splendens and Alba splendens ; the latter 

 makes a delightful white flower hedge about masses of annual 

 larkspur, because it is so sturdy, so broad and so upright, Avhilst 

 the larkspur SAvays and bends with every passing breeze. 



We never, it seems to me, grow enough of the pink and pale 

 lavender larkspur. Quantities of the purple and Avhite are to be 

 seen, but Ave see far too little pink and laveiider. Why not order 

 about one-tenth as much of the purple and Avhite, as you do of the 

 pink and lavender? Then you will get the desired effect I have 

 in mind. The same might be said of certain colors of the annual 

 lupins. Why not have a predominance of the Avonderful Pink 

 Beauty, the tender Azsure Blue and here and there small groups 

 of Pearly White? They are excellent cutting floAvers, especially 

 Avhen neighbored with Arctotis flowers and its foliage and gypso- 

 philia, and such a group can be depended upon to remain fresh 

 and lovely for at least a Aveek. The annual lupins are so reliable 

 for succession, and the Avise Amateur will have a great many pots 

 of them in the reserve garden beds for ''filling-in" places made 



