allowed to develop and the flowers were cut every 

 day. 



Groups of "Halley" Gladiolus rose from a 

 mass of pale pink Verbena, small plants of the 

 Verbena were set out when the Gladiolus bulbs 

 were just peeping out of the surface of the soil. 

 They spread over an area of many feet. 



I saw Chimney Bell Flowers, so tall and so 

 blue, towering over the dwarf white Phlox, 

 Louise Abbema, and the shining Vinca Roseus, 

 near by rich, velvet, purple Gladiolus, Baron 

 Hulot (planted in mid-June), bloomed with the 

 Japanese Anemones, Kriemhilde, and Prince 

 Henry; they are both soft pink in color, and re- 

 placed brilliant Poppies, stately white Lilies and 

 Japanese Iris. 



I saw a bed of Salvia "Azurea," J. S. Brunton, 

 Delphiniums, and Salvia "Patens." So blue was 

 this planting it seemed to have robbed the sky. I 

 saw at least a thousand blooms of Dianthus (Gar- 



