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Old Time Gardens 
among flower friends. I suppose we have to trans- 
plant some plants, sometimes ; but I would try to 
keep old friends together even in those removals. 
They would be lonely when they opened their eyes 
after the winter’s sleep, and saw strange flower forms 
and unknown faces around them. 
Larkspur and Phlox. 
For flowers have friendships, and antipathies as 
well. How Canterbury Bells and Foxgloves love 
to grow side by side ! And Sweet Williams, with 
Foxgloves, as here shown. And in my sister’s gar- 
den Larkspur always starts up by white Phlox — see 
a bit of the border on this page. Whatever may 
influence these docile alliances, it isn’t a proper 
sense of fitness of color ; for Tiger Lilies dearly 
