tercup yellow California Poppy is the one I choose 

 to border the Kerria, because the orange, flame and 

 Mandarin shades are too dark. I mixed the cream 

 white (Alba) and buttercup seed together when 

 sowing and they blossomed together to my delight. 

 Rake the seed mixed with sand lightly into the 

 surface soil, using considerably more seed than 

 advised for flower bed borders, an ounce of seed 

 to a pint of sand. 



Excellent for mass planting is the Japanese 

 lilac-japonica. This lilac is a unique species grow- 

 ing to the size of a small tree and producing fluffy, 

 cream-white panicles a full month later than any 

 other lilac. I saw a mass planting of this lilac. 

 It consisted of eleven trees, and all the ground 

 about them, front and sides and back, was covered 

 with hardy herbaceous Lupins, the white, pink 

 and blue. All were in bloom. I need not tell you 

 how uncommonly lovely it was, neither need I 

 tell you that it was all hardy and that these Japanese 

 lilacs and hardy Lupins were planted in the Fall 

 and safely wintered, although protected only as we 

 must protect all newly planted shrubs. If I repeat 

 this so often, it is because it is so important and 

 I wish to impress its importance upon you by re- 

 iteration, so please understand. To me the foliage 

 of the hardy Lupin is unequaled by any herbaceous 



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