as when seen by the dusty roadside. Its color is "dark vinaceous" 
while the cone flower is "deep vinaceous" and even lighter, and both 
these colors are from the same tone scale of Dr. Ridgway's chart. 
It was most effective and well worth letting live, I thought, and when 
arranged for the house with some of the tall plume grass and placed in 
a copper bowl, the coloring was most artistic, as the copper seemed to 
repeat the tone of the flowers, while the plume grass was like the silver 
sheen seen in the high lights of the copper. 
Queen Ann's Lace came up in the iris bed, and grew like the 
traditional bean stalk. The whole plant was over six feet high. For 
weeks I cut flower after flower to arrange with the tiger lilies, and 
they were never missed from the masses of blooms that the plant 
developed in the iris bed. If it would but come up again in the 
shrubbery it would be a great addition to any effect or color scheme. 
It grew very shabby in August so I had to cut it down, but across 
the way Boneset appeared and that lasted well into October. Both 
these plants are good whites for the garden and especially good to use 
as cut flowers when one would hesitate to sacrifice the garden phlox. 
Virginia Day Flower, Spiderwort family, makes a dense spreading 
undergrowth in the beds and will give a lovely true blue note if al- 
lowed to grow in the rich soil, but it is of no value as a cut flower. 
We find so few true blue flowers that I treasure this weed and actually 
depend upon it to intensify my blue bed that I do not keep as blue as 
I would like. It is the exact tint of the color called after the family 
"Commelina blue" — see Dr. Ridgway. 
The wild wood Aster, white with a small flower, is worth trans- 
planting, if one can identify it on a wet day in August, for it grows ap- 
parently without a stop, and makes a wonderful effect with the larger 
cultivated violet Asters that are so desirable in September for a hardy 
garden. None of the bug or mildew enemies that we fight so religious- 
ly among the cultivated flowers seem to like these wild cousins when 
the rarer relations are around. I can pick dozens of rose bugs off the 
lovely buds of Radiance or Dean Hole, while five feet away a wild 
rose covers itself with flowers and never a visit from the bug so near. 
How it, the bug, can discriminate between the two rose bushes, for in 
bud the color is similar, and why it should prefer the fatter rose 
to a slimmer one, I never can see, and blame it all to the "contrari- 
wiseness" of the living world. 
The following list I transplanted in the garden, though they do not 
thrive as well as they should. But in their way they are satisfac- 
tory and I hope to establish them, so they will be deceived into believ- 
ing that they came of their own accord and flourish like the others. 
