establishment of Rose and Perennial Test gardens in cities differing in 
climate from the National Gardens about to be established in Wash- 
ington, D. C. 
Plans were perfected for the second Annual Meeting of the Club 
which will be held at Princeton in May. After the meeting Mrs. 
Russell entertained the council at luncheon. 
plan for a Spring Border 
MRS. FRANCIS KING, Garden Club of Michigan 
The border in question is a double one, a balanced planting on 
either side of a walk of dark brick about two and a half feet wide. 
The space allotted to flowers flanking the walk is about three feet. 
Eight subjects are used; combinations of color, periods of bloom, form 
and height of flowers and plants, all are considered. 
At those edges of the borders farthest from the walk, peonies 
of white and palest pink are used, Mme. Emile Galle, that flower of 
enchantment, predominating. 
Next the peonies toward the walk, comes a row of iris pallida 
Dalmatica, then an alternating line of Iris Kaempferi and spirea astilbe 
Arendsii Die Walkiire; next these the Darwin tulip Agneta planted 
alternately with English Iris Mauve Queen; then the double early tulip 
Yellow Rose. 
Bleu Celeste, the double early tulip which Miss Jekyll calls the 
bluest of tulips, was to have bloomed with the vivid flower of tulip 
Yellow Rose. But because of Miss Jekyll's commendation of Bleu 
Celeste, or possibly for the more prosaic reason of crop failure in Hol- 
land, my very late order remained unfilled, and Mr. van Tubergen 
substituted for it the Darwin Agneta. This, he assures me, is nearly 
the color of Bleu Celeste. (If any reader of these lines has Bleu 
Celeste in his or her borders this Spring, may I beg for the very great 
kindness of a bud or two sent my way? I cannot remember that I 
have ever felt stronger curiosity about a flower.) Alas, unfortunately 
for me, Agneta blooms after Yellow Rose, thus I may not look for the 
lovely bands of clear yellow and dull blue which were to have adorned 
my border in early May. 
Close to the brick itself are mounds of Myosotis dissitiflora and 
Cutton's Royal Blue, an early and a late, while back of these are lines 
of alyssum sulphureum, the hardy one of primrose-yellow. 
I count on the Japanese iris as an ally of the English one, the 
latter said to be a delicious shade of pinkish mauve. The cool pink 
spirea, too, should create a delicate foil for the broad-petalled Iris 
Kaempferi, and my faint, and perhaps foolish, hope is that a few 
forget-me-nots may be tricked into blooming on till Iris Mauve Queen 
