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mass of some gray leaved thing such as the 
somewhat tender Centaurea gymnocarpa or 
Cineraria maritima. 
And speaking of gray leaved things — try 
a little patch of Artemisia frigida with 
clumps of Sternbergia lutea near the edges. 
Artemisia has delicate silvery leaves and 
Sternbergia has leaves like a narcissus and 
flowers very much like bright yellow cro- 
cuses on short stems. But the best of it is 
that the flowers come in October and bring 
a welcome bit of color to the edge of the 
border which is mostly given over to the 
low things that bloom in the spring. And 
down the line there can be clumps of Crocus 
speciosus or sativus coming up through 
creepers like the lavender form of Phlox 
subulata or Veronica rupestris. These 
crocuses are good lavender purples, bloom 
in October, and have not the poor and 
weak-stemmed habit of their relatives the 
pale pink colchicums. 
But of course the real interest of autumn 
goes to the Japanese anemones with their 
great sheaves of airy bloom, and to the 
clouds of Michaelmas daisies. Personally, 
I prefer the white Japanese anemones and 
the pale pink Queen Charlotte. In my 
garden they are to be planted among the 
clumps of Japanese iris because they like 
the rich food with which I pamper my iris 
and the daily floodings which the iris gets for 
a month before and a month after blooming 
time. Several clumps of Spirea filipendula, 
the Astilbe Arendsii, var. Ceres, Astilbe 
Gladstone, and perhaps Grandis and Davidii 
are all going to find a place in these wet 
borders. The advantages are two, aside 
from their finding a congenial home: they 
will give me bloom in June, just before the 
iris comes, and the anemones will give me 
bloom again from September until frost. 
But almost as important as this, both will 
give me a pleasant foliage combination with 
the iris. Well grown Japanese iris are 
almost too coarse for a small garden, but if 
we can get a foliage which wall pleasantly 
relate with the strong verticality of the 
iris leaves their coarseness will be softened. 
Therefore, choose compound leaves — those 
of the spireas have a considerable element 
of the horizontal because of the way they 
are carried, and similarly those of the 
anemone. 
I am to have Campanula carpatica creep- 
ing around broad tufts of Primula vulgaris 
and the single Lychnis viscaria close to the 
colony of Campanula persicifolia. Both 
make tufts and the succession of bloom will 
be good; for it will appear casually as one 
great colony, only the bloom will be very 
different at two different times of the year. 
Then too, there must be a clump of white 
fraxinella with the deep purple Veronica 
amethystina near by and perhaps a clump 
of the large doronicum. White lupine and 
dark blue iris are to combine. Iris pumila 
is going to push its way through the fat 
gray mounds of Dianthus plumarius. 
Perhaps by autumn I shall have to confess 
that there have been many summer trans- 
plantings to give room. But I do not fear. 
The plants must be had and the only way 
to have them in a baby garden is to plant 
three layers deep and manipulate eternally. 
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This border is designed for its late season effects with flower color, but also has more or less continuous interest throughout the s 
Foliage color is especially considered here 
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diction of terms. Yet a study 
of plant material discloses much 
that in foliage or fruit, form or 
color, may be used effectively. 
However good the perennials, a suitable 
background enhances their charm. This 
background may be very desirably of ever- 
greens but at present I shall make use of 
only the commonest of shrubs as they seem 
more suggestive of unrealized possibilities 
and may, therefore, be more adaptable to 
ordinary conditions. I have chosen for 
the site of the border a shallow bay in the 
shrubbery, about twenty-five feet long, 
and not much farther from the living side 
of the house, yet open to the sun for the 
major part of the day. It forms a part 
of an important view throughout the year 
so that any interest of color, possible at 
any season, will be appreciated. 
