Forget-me-nots, which are quite as hardy as 

 Palustris and will bloom from early Spring 

 sown seed the very same Summer. This 

 variety is correctly named (I wish all flowers 

 were!), as it grows into a clear, bright blue 

 diminutive column or pillar, and is one of the 

 best hardy Forget-me-nots for cutting. 



Of the Platycodons, Mariesi is an excellent 

 edging plant, growing less than a foot high. 

 There are two shades, a blue and a paper 

 white, and they bloom continuously. I have 

 used them in borders for years, but always 

 bordering them with violas or very dwarf 

 phlox and planting the white, yellow and 

 orange-scarlet Iceland Poppies directly back 

 of the dwarf Mariesi Platycodons. The pret- 

 tiest hardy phlox to place before the Mariesi 

 Platycodons is Argon, it is a salmony-rose and 

 really beautiful, particularly with the steel 

 blue and paper white Mariesi. Another dwarf 

 edging phlox is Evenement, also a rosy-sal- 

 mon, and Nana Caerulea, a remarkable baby 



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