are of such delicate tones as mauve clouded with rose, or blue 

 flushed with the pale pink, or mauve suggesting a soft blue, gray, 

 etc., etc. They bloom all Summer through to early Fall. 



VIOLA CORNUTA 



How I wish I could make the culture of the Viola Cornuta as 

 great a hobby with the Amateur Gardener in this county as it is 

 in England. These lovely flowers are sometimes called tufted 

 pansies. They are similar to the pansy in formation and coloring, 

 but they are smaller and faithfully ever blooming. 



There is a variety of Viola Cornuta, a rare Hybrid called 

 Atropurpurea. It is almost identical in color and form with the 

 blossom of the single Russian and English Violet and has a per- 

 fume which is identical. I think there is not a flower that blooms 

 that excels it in color or profusion of bloom. As an edging plant 

 it is perfection indeed. Every variety of Viola Cornuta is a cloud 

 of bloom all Summer. They shower and lean gracefully, although 

 not of prostrate habit. The whole range of color is mauve, mauve 

 and yellow, clear golden yellow, and pure white with a blue and 

 gold spot, a wedgewood blue, pale lavender blue and a deep Rus- 

 sian purple in which there is a suggestion also of deep blue. 



Where conditions are such that there must be a straight edge 

 to the Herbaceous Garden, an undulating effect may be secured 

 by waved lines of Viola planted in the English way; namely, the 

 ribbon border, using the self-color of deep purple blue for the first 

 row, golden and blue for the second row and creamy yellow for the 

 third row, while all the other shades could fill in the bare places. 

 Planting them six inches apart each way, in a short time they will 

 fill in "to touching faces." 



While I have read and heard so unceasingly that Violas should 

 be grown in semi-shade, I have found Viola Cornuta to succeed far 

 better in full sunshine, particularly the hybrid Atropurpurea and 

 Pansies also became scraggy and ragged when grown in full shade 

 which, is nearly always advised, and is what I cannot understand, 



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