ing. Late Cottage Tulips, Darwin s, some varieties of Iris and 
many small spring flowers blossom at Lilac time. In the 
amateur's garden a group of Prunus Pissardii was used to give 
the effect of deeper shadows on a too shallow boundary line. In 
front of them three Lilacs were planted in a triangle, the base 
at the back. The single, light pink blossoms of Lovaniensis were 
greatly enhanced by the maroon tinge in the Plum's new foliage. 
On each side of the Lilac triangle were clumps of Iris Flavescens 
alternating with Inglescombe Pink Tulips. Mertensia Virginica 
hung its blue bells and rosy-tipped buds for contrast. Lilac- 
pink Pansies and pale yellow ones carpeted the intervening 
spaces. They crossed the sacred "three foot line" only during 
Lilac time. In front of the third Lilac the contour of the whole 
planting curved down and out by using Iris Pumila hybrids 
(whose blooming had been retarded by lifting and replanting), 
Floribunda, creamy-yellow and Formosa, dark to light violet, 
intermingled with Myosotis and the wild Herb Robert (Geranium 
Robertianum) , whose pinkish-purple reproduced the Lilac and 
Tulip tones. This planting gladdened the sight for many days 
and still undimmed, has "flashed upon the inward eye" for 
two long years. 
A second grouping was in a triangle formed by a driveway 
and two paths. Bechtel's Flowering Crab lifted its tiny pink 
roses high in the center of three double blue Lilacs, Condorcet; 
and Iris, Mme. Chereau, with blue-frilled edges carried the color 
down where it ended in a deep blue Primrose, a gift from the 
Highland Park collection. Clara Butt Tulips (they deepen this 
Lilac's blue), Narcissus Barri Conspicuous rising from white 
perennial Candytuft and pale yellow Alyssum and Argenteum 
with lilac-blue Pansies. 
"Why not form your own combinations? By Mrs. King's 
advice, send your flowers to the chair ! — a cane-seated one. Hang 
a spray of Lilac above and stand your blossoms in the spaces 
below. It may be that "words are colors rightly laid," but 
nothing except a brush can paint the possibilities of Lilac 
canvasses. 
Before each one of us there rises a personal memory-picture 
palpitating with light and fragrance as we recall "When Lilacs 
in the dooryard bloomed." 
White single. Beine Elizabeth, Virginalis, Vestale, Mont Blanc. 
White double. Princess Clementine, Ellen Willmot, Jeanne d'Arc. 
Single blue. President Lincoln, Bleuatre, Decaisnc, Lamartine. 
Double blue. President Lambeau, Doyen Keteleer, Condorcet, Jules 
Simon. 
Single pink. Macrostachya, Lovaniensis, Lilarosa. 
Double pink. Comte de Kerchove, Belle de Nancy, Waldeck Bousseau. 
Eed single. Pasteur, Congo, Uncle Tom, Negro. 
Eed double. Paul Hariot, Adelaide Dunbar, Charles Joly, De 
Saussure. 
Ervanna Bowen Bissell. 
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