A Moonlight Garden 427 
they will speak to you ? ” for I turn to them with 
such an expectancy of something. 
The cc everlasting ” white Pea is a most satisfac- 
tory plant by day or night. Hedges covered with 
it are a pure delight. Do not fear to plant it 
with liberal hand. Be very liberal, too, in your 
garden of white Foxgloves. Even if the garden 
be small, there is room for many graceful spires 
of the lovely bells to shine out everywhere, pierc- 
ing up through green foliage and colored blooms 
of other plants. They are not only beautiful, but 
they are flowers of sentiment and association, en- 
deared to childhood, visited of bees, among the 
best beloved of old-time favorites. They consort 
well with nearly every other flower, and certainly with 
every other color, and they seem to clarify many a 
crudely or dingily tinted flower ; they are as admir- 
able foils as they are principals in the garden scheme. 
In England, where they readily grow wild, they are 
often planted at the edge of a wood, or to form vis- 
tas in a copse. I doubt whether they would thrive 
here thus planted, but they are admirable when set 
in occasional groups to show in pure whiteness 
against a hedge. I say in occasional groups, for the 
Foxglove should never be planted in exact rows. 
The White Iris, the Iris of the Florentine Orris- 
root, is one of the noblest plants of the whole world ; 
its pure petals are truly hyaline like snow-ice, like 
translucent white glass; and the indescribably beauti- 
ful drooping lines of the flowers are such a contrast 
with the defiant erectness of the fresh green leaves. 
Small wonder that it was a sacred flower of the 
