white; Eugene Verdier, palest pink and most beautiful; Albert Crousse, 
light pink; Livingston, extremely fine, bright pink, four and five large 
flowers to a stem; Edulis Superba, very charming bright rose. For a 
very late planting where peonies are needed, Marie Lemoine is best. 
It is a splendid flower and bloomed this year until July 1 Oth. 
Ulew ant) ^Unusual Bnnuals anb Successful 
Hnnual Combinations 
An attractive edge for a border of flowers of shades of yellow and 
bronze was the little Sanvitalia which was covered during the entire 
summer with tiny bright yellow double flowers, many with dark centers. 
The nasturtium, Farquhar's A.pricot, is an exact match as to 
shade of the phlox Rheinlander and is excellent grown as a cover for 
the phlox stalks. 
White early cosmos and cleone make a fine and graceful mass of 
green and white for back of border. 
Clarkia Salmon Queen is charming with violet stock, single and 
pale. 
Margaret L. Gage, 
Litchfield Garden Club. 
I discovered, last summer, that it does not pay to start Sanvitalia 
in flats. Sown early, in the open ground, it makes better, fuller plants 
and begins to bloom at about the same time. 
Kate L. Brewster. 
Erysimum Perofskiaum (Annual Wall Flower) is a very pretty 
yellow annual and has proved valuable for cutting. 
A most successful combination of last summer was Farquhar's 
Golden Gem Pansies and Myosotis Alpestris, Victoria. 
Edna Crawford, 
The Rye Garden Club. 
Do you all know the charming little annual called "Lavatera"? 
It is of the Mallow family, but it is much more modest in size and less 
insistent than the Marvels, which flaunt themselves in our summer 
gardens. Of a lovely shade of pink, without a trace of magenta, it 
is a delight to the eye when used with Heliotrope, or the large flowered 
Gypsophila. It has a valuable habit, too, of dropping seed early 
enough in the season to make the seedlings a foot high by the time frost 
comes. These can be brought into a sunny window and will come into 
flower before Christmas. As I write this, 1 Oth of November, it is 
still in bloom in my outdoor garden. 
Abbie M. Field, 
Garden Club of Cincinnati. 
