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border of all colors far too well to do that. Here, 
as everywhere in my garden, should be white flowers, 
especially tall white flowers : white Foxgloves, white 
Delphinium, white Lupine, white Hollyhock, white 
Bell-flower, nor should I object to a few spires at 
one end of the bed of sulphur-yellow Lupines, or 
yellow Hollyhocks, or a group of Paris Daisies. 
I have seen a great Oriental Poppy growing in 
wonderful beauty near a mass of pale blue Lark- 
spur, and Shirley Poppies are a delight with blues ; 
and any one could arrange the pompadour tints of 
pink and blue in a garden who could in a gown. 
Let me name some of the favorites of the Blue 
Border. The earliest but not the eldest is the pretty 
spicy Scilla in several varieties, and most satisfactory 
it is in perfection of tint, length of bloom, and great 
hardiness. It would be welcomed as we eagerly 
greet all the early spring blooms, even if it were 
not the perfect little blossom that is pictured on 
page 254, the very little Scilla that grew in my 
mother’s garden. 
The early spring blooming of the beloved Grape 
Hyacinth gives us an overflowing bowl of “ blue 
principle”; the whole plant is imbued and fairly 
exudes blue. Ruskin gave the beautiful and 
appropriate term “ blue-flushing ” to this plant and 
others, which at the time of their blossoming send 
out through their veins their blue color into the 
surrounding leaves and the stem ; he says they 
u breathe out” their color, and tells of a ^saturated 
purple” tint. 
Not content with the confines of the garden 
