the dwarf Elizabeth Dennison. I saw a bed of 

 Salvia Patens and white Calla Lilies bordered 

 with gracillis lobelia. The Calla Lilies rose high 

 above the Salvia Patens. The beauty of this 

 planting made one exclaim. The Calla Lilies 

 were started in five-inch pots in good simple loam 

 in which soot and bone meal had been incorpor- 

 ated. When the sheaths of green v/ere several 

 inches high the pots were "plunged" (sunken) in 

 the bed, this is no more trouble or more work than 

 planting gladiolus bulbs, or annuals, but you 

 create an effect quite beyond my power of de- 

 scribing. The Salvia Patens blossoms are just 

 the shade of blue of the J. P. Brunton delphinium 

 and grows about sixteen inches high. The lobelia 

 was gracilis the blue of Salvia Patens. 



I saw a bed all of dwarf blue delphinium 

 Chinensis and pale pink Speciosum lilies and Spe- m 

 ciosum lilies alba, the pink ones abloom from | 

 early Summer to August when the Alba lilies be- M 



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