vias grown inside the vegetable garden wall, or hedge. There is 

 their place, and there they are dear little flowers, but only i£ you 

 plant the soft buff and vivid scarlets in front of dwarf Zurich Salvia, 

 which should border the tall Salvia "Bonfire" or "Splendens" they 

 in turn bordering only the purest white Cosmos. The vivid yellow 

 and orange shades of Zinnias should be placed in the yellow flower 

 bed far away from all that is delicate and fine in our gardens. You 

 will find many hardy border plants explicitly described in this 

 number of Our Garden Journal. May I suggest that a border 

 of the hybrid Viola Atropurpurea for your pink rose beds would 

 be a really happy choice. 



Purple, Wedgewood, and Cobalt and bright blue Violas Cor- 

 nuta to border your yellow rose beds; all the Violas and French 

 and Irish Anemones as a border to the white rose beds and for the 

 long red rose bed the buff, white and gold Violas Cornuta. 



If you will use only Violas and French and Irish Anemones 

 as borders to all your rose beds you will obtain a finish that is har- 

 monious even though it may be rather formal, but uniformity in 

 your rose garden is not only important, but decidedly desirable. 

 Do not permit them to go to seed. It is too much to ask of any 

 plant to flower and seed the entire Summer. I have said so often, 

 it is the seeding, not the flowering that exhausts a plant. 



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Q. I have a low hill-side where I would like to plant something 

 bright and hardy. I am also planning for a number of ornamental 

 evergreens and would appreciate a list of the best. I would like 

 four varieties, as I intend having a large planting of but few va- 

 rieties. Would Japanese weeping cherry trees be effective near a 

 group of fine old Spruce trees? 



A. Plant hills and slopes with mountain laurel CKalmia lati- 

 folia^ Japanese Yews and Parkman's Crab. The evergreens you 

 wish the varieties of for ornamental planting are, Abies concolor 

 ffir^ Douglas laxifolia Cfir) Veitch's Abies ffir^ Red Pine resinosa 

 and Pinus Mughus, The Japanese Weeping Cherry trees would be 

 seen at their very best near the Spruces. 



Naturalize low growing and tall tulips in shades of mauve, 

 different shades of pink and purple in advance of the Japanese 

 Weeping Cherry Trees. 



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