Suggestions for fall flManting 
(These arrangements are not theoretical, but have been success-r 
fully used by members of the Garden Club of America.) 
For an oblong bed of Darwin and Cottage Tulips: 
Back (first) row — Margaret or Gretchen — pale pink. — Darwin. 
Second row — Clara Butt — bright pink. — Darwin. 
Third row — La Tristesse — mauve. — Darwin. 
Fourth row — Moonlight — canary yellow. — Cottage. 
Fifth row — Vitellina — cream white. — Cottage. 
Alice K. Carpenter, 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
Darwin Tulip, Dream — deep mauve — with carpet of yellow 
Pansies. 
For early May — Tulip, Le Reve and Mertensia Virginica. 
A June planting — Oriental Poppy, Mrs. Perry and Mary Stud- 
holme, darkest Blue Iris Germanica, and Aquilegia Sulphurea. 
A summer planting — Masses of pink Snapdragon against a great 
clump of Gypsophila Paniculata. 
Jessie Peabody Butler, 
Garden Club of Illinois. 
Companions that increase each other's charm: 
Lobelia Cardinalis and Campanula Pyramidalis. 
Anchusa Italica Dropmore, Opal and Valerian Officinalis. 
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Oriental Poppies and Valerian Officinalis. 
When there is room for a mass planting, Oriental poppies of an 
intense blood red shade can be used with small clumps of Valerian 
officinalis (garden heliotrope) interspersed among them. The heavy 
effect produced by the vivid poppies is lightened by the airy open heads 
of white which the Valerian lifts high above them, supported on strong 
stalks, rising from a clump of fern-like foliage, which remains in good 
condition throughout the summer and helps to cover the space left bare 
by the poppies. 
Foxgloves and Penstemon Digitalis. 
A charming effect was produced by using the pale pink and pink- 
ish white shades of Foxgloves behind a screen of Penstemon digitalis, 
whose fairy bells in clustered heads of pink and white repeated the 
Foxglove colors. The Penstemon grows high enough to cover the bare 
stems of the Foxgloves, but not too high to hide its flowers. It con- 
tinues after the Foxgloves have faded and keeps its glossy green foliage 
all summer. 
