pink and the royal purple of the Violas was subtly obvious, but 

 only to those with a fine sense for color and the fitness of things. 

 Many passed this planting with but a casual glance, caught I dare 

 say, by the tall pink lilies. The Madame Paul Dutrie phlox should 

 not be considered as just phlox ; please observe when next you see 

 it, how different Madame Paul Dutrie is from all other phlox; you 

 will then understand what I mean. 



Speaking of Phlox you will be glad to know there are ever so 

 many new dwarf varieties to hide the unlovely base of the taller 

 ones, and these low-growing ones produce just as splendidly large 

 flower trusses as the very tallest, and what is more, they serve, as 

 I said before to hide the ten or twelve inches that is always unat- 

 tractive in the tall growing kinds. Aurore vivid rose, Argon, deli- 

 cate pink, Delarey, white flushed with rose, Hajo Eilers, white and 

 mauve, Helena Vacaresco, white with golden eye (rare), Rossig- 

 nol, mauve and gray and rose (interesting). Nana Caerulea of 

 which I have told you and Tapis Blanc growing but eight inches 

 high, a pure white in color and producing huge flower panicles. 

 These dwarf phlox are valuable for planting directly next the min- 

 iature box edging of the herbaceous garden or the phlox bed. 

 Where one devotes a whole bed to phlox, it may be kept abloom 

 until frost by pinching away the tips of the plants here and there 

 before the flower buds have formed. There are several new tali 

 beauties. Lofna, mauve pink, Gustavo Nadaud, not unlike 

 Madame Paul Dutrie, Loki salmon-rose, Le Printemps; deep rose 

 with pearl center, Aubrey Alder, flame and gold (most unusual ), 

 Arthur Ranc, brilliant salmon pink (striking). The variety 

 Aubrey Alder was grown with several varieties of Tritoma (Torch 

 Lily) and I regret to say sometimes called Red Hot Poker (which 

 one must admit they resemble, therefore a red hot poker must be 

 beautiful, only I don't believe v/e ever recognized its beauty, being 

 only a poker) with a background of the bronzy red Ricinus (Zanzi- 

 bariensis), other vivid colored phlox were there in masses. Aurora 

 Boreale, scarlet-salmon. Baron Van Dedan, a strikingly vivid red, 

 Fernand Cortez, reddish copper, Seibold, orange-red, with the 



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