IN A GARDEN ENTHUSIAST'S GARDEN 



I saw a great bed of asters, only one variety, 

 Pink Enchantress, the bed was bordered with 

 dwarf purple heliotrope "Regal." Early in the 

 Summer several hundred bulbs of Madonna Lilies 

 had produced the blooms for this bed and after 

 their season had passed the aster plants had been 

 "set" filling in by measurement, a thousand Pink 

 Enchantress plants. The heliotrope border re- 

 placed the Irish (St. Brigid) Anemones which 

 had bloomed with the Madonna Lilies. The he- 

 liotrope was pot-grown and already in flower 

 when planted between the cut-down Irish Ane- 

 mones. This planting was at the base of a long 

 rather high wall over which Wistaria vines were 

 draped and whose orchid mauve-blue flower pen- 

 dants had graced most delightfully the Madonna 

 Lilies and Irish Anemones in early Summer. 



A distant planting suggested a colorful cloud, 

 a blending of blue and gray, of purple and laven- 



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