Old Flower Favorites 
love to grow by crimson-purple Phlox, a most 
inharmonious association, and you can hardly 
separate them. If a flower dislikes her neighbor 
in the garden, she moves quietly away, I don’t know 
where or how. Sometimes she dies, but at any rate 
she is gone. It is so queer; I have tried every year 
to make Feverfew grow in this bed, and it won’t do 
it, though it grows across the path. There is some 
flower here 
that the pom- 
pous Feverfew 
doesn’t care to 
associate with. 
Not the Lark- 
spur, for they 
are famous 
friends — per- 
haps it is the 
Sweet William, 
who is rather 
a plain fellow. 
In general 
flowers are very 
sociable with 
each other, but 
they have some preferences, and these are powerful 
ones. 
It is amusing to read in no less than five recent 
English “ garden-books,” by flower-loving souls, 
the solemn advice that if you wish a beautiful gar- 
den effect you “ must plant the great Oriental Poppy 
by the side of the White Lupine.” 
Sweet William and Foxglove. 
