kept cut as they faded. I saw this border the last time the 

 twentieth of October. It had escaped the one and only early 

 frost we had had up to that time, and was as beautiful 

 as it was when I first saw it in July. Old Gold is a 

 rose of great distinction. When not obtainable Mme. Abel 

 Chatenay could be substituted for Old Gold. It also is 

 immune from all the enemies of the rose, and while one of 

 our older roses, there are few lovelier. Mme. Bruant 

 or Mme. Lederle or any dwarf deep-toned heliotrope could 

 be used. It is so simple and interesting to grow one's own 

 heliotrope trees or standards. I know an amateur gar- 

 dener who, without any special effort, grew fifty heliotrope 

 trees and hundreds and hundreds of the dwarf heliotrope 

 plants taken from cuttings supplied by twenty-five plants 

 obtained at a nursery. I saw a pink rose border edged and 

 framed with the hybrid Viola Atropurpurea, so like a 

 great Russian Violet, hardy and always in bloom, if not 

 allowed to go to seed. The tall pink roses were Lady 

 Alice Stanley. Directly back of the border of violas was 

 a border of the miniature pink rose, Mme. Cecile Brun- 

 ner. Here, too, were abundantblooms almost to November. 



In Augusta, Georgia, there is a rare, beautiful gar- 

 den, so impressive and so unusual. It was here I saw the 

 St. Brigid Anemone grown as a border to all the rose 

 beds. The effect was most charming. While the rose 

 plants were all in full foliage when I was there, no roses 

 were as yet in bloom, but the anemones were, thousands 

 and thousands of them. The St. Brigids are the anemones 

 we have seen in such abundance in the flower shops for 

 the past two or three winters. The colors are exquisite 

 pale blue and gray blue, willow china blue, flesh, rose, 



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