THE ETHEREAL BORDER 



Perhaps one might imagine that the plants 

 and bulbs and roots in the ethereal border are not 

 within the province of the small garden, but the 

 great garden or even the tiny garden may have 

 its ethereal border with no greater effort as to 

 labor than required for a border of annuals. 

 Everything in the ethereal border is hardy and it 

 is all white and gold with just a touch of blue in 

 the edging. That anything so rare and sweet and 

 fine as the ethereal border should be hardy, living 

 on indefinitely with only a root or bulb replaced 

 now and then, seems beyond belief. It is truly 

 lamentable — this lack of knowledge concerning 

 our most exquisite garden treasures, the really 

 permanent factors in a well considered garden. 

 If you will but recall the intrinsic charm of our 

 long spurred hybrid columbines, maiden-hair 

 ferns, heucheras, all the delphiniums and specie- 

 sum lilies — the Eremuri and the countless garden 



