Dicentra Bleeding Heart (D. spectabilis). Rose pink, with enough 
color to use in a pink planting. 
Daphne Daphne Mezereum, amaranth pink. This creeps best over 
stones or a low wall and is very fragrant. 
Magnolia Magnolia Soulangeana, the deepest shades of Indian Lake 
and Pansy purple. 
Chaenome- Chaenomeles japonica (Cydonia japonica), the gayest of 
les spring shrubs and should only be put near old box trees, grey 
cement houses or green backgrounds. It monopolizes the whole 
landscape when in bloom, color old rose and eugenia red. It 
kills any yellow in sight. 
.Azalea Among the Azaleas is that eye-compelling variety " Amoena" 
(Rhododendron obtusum var. amoenum) , color Aster purple, 
very hardy, very gay, and very hard to place. The variety called 
"Hinodigiri" is more brilliant and the nearest color plate is 
rose red (This is one of the missing tones in the color chart). 
Azalea yodogawa, light mallow pink, never failing and rather 
uninteresting. 
"Anthony Koster" (variety of Rhododendron sinense, 
Azalea mollis), light salmon orange, very lovely. 
Rhododendron calendulaceum (Azalea calendulacea) , pale 
salmon orange to grenadine red, a lovely toning of color. I 
think these Azaleas are too exotic for spring coloring as a rule. 
Nabcissus These, as to color, are only interesting to the collector as all 
the varieties are too pale and too dainty to interfere with color 
planting, except, of course, the deeper yellow (Buttercup 
yellow, French chart), and even those are not too deep to show 
between the red tips of the coming Peonies. 
Tulips Tulips are a life-study and my list is too incomplete to even 
mention any, for no two pairs of eyes see the same tone in these 
wonderful flowers, and I have been satisfied with Mr. Chester 
Jay Hunt's description of his hobby. When I want to buy 
Tulips I go out to see them in bloom; it is worth the time, for 
they permit the most daring of all color planting. 
Aquilegia Among the Columbines I found I had twenty distinct 
varieties, but only a few were named, such as : 
Aquilegia chrysantha, picric yellow. 
Aquilegia vulgaris var. nivea-grandiflora, seafoam yellow, 
with deeper spurs. 
Rocky Mountain Columbine (A. caerulea), bi-colored spurs, 
pallid blue, and corolla seafoam yellow. 
Aquilegia truncata (A. calif or nica) , spurs and corolla coral 
red. 
The above are the "long spurs," while the unnamed varieties 
were: very double Chinese violet, eugenia red, thulite pink, dark 
slate purple, buttercup yellow, old rose, vinaceous purple; and, 
among the "medium spurs," were the colors light dull magenta, 
old rose and yellow, laelia pink, Rood's violet, and hyacinth 
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