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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
Pauls 
Scarlet 
on a 
Pergola 
Earliest 
Bulbs and 
Other Plants 
to Bloom 
Tor Inter 
mediate 
Bloom 
Pauls Scarlet is lovely on the white pillars of a pergola or white 
posts that carry the chains of a rose garland. If your garland or 
pergola is at the end of a vista, nothing could be lovelier, but for 
limited space in smaller gardens, the shell-pink Mary Wallace , the 
salmon Jacotte or the pink Cherokee are better. The Silver Moon is 
lovely for wide spaces. Let it climb to the tops of tall trees, but it is 
too rank for the small garden and must be restrained or banished. 
FLOWERING PLANTS 
With the hedges, shrubs and vines for background, let us take 
up next the problem of plants in their habit and order of bloom. 
It is January and the Violets are blooming in purple sheets, wide 
as our planting of them permits. Their purple is varied by clumps 
of white Violets and of wild Violets of palest blue. Grape Hya¬ 
cinths make vivid splashes of royal blue and the delicate blue oi 
the Triteleias, a dainty flower of the old South, loved and grown 
in Louisiana and the Carolinas, makes a charming border at the 
edge of flagstone paths. Adjoining the Triteleias, under the pergola, 
or in shady places where grass is hard to grow plant Vinca Minor, 
or Gill-over-the-ground. These add a vivid green to the shaded 
garden path which should be accented here and there with clumps 
of Snowflakes. Crocus are not so easy to grow in our climate, but 
their purple and gold, even if the bulbs live only for a season, add 
much to this first preview of the Spring which caries us well into 
March. 
Following the Snow Flakes come the Pansies, English Daisies, 
and Narcissus, Daffodils and Jonquils start their procession of 
bloom. The earliest and smallest, the sweet-scented yellow Jonquil, 
is, to me, the most enchanting of all. It blends harmoniously with 
the early single blue Hyacinth, Azura and Muscari, which are also 
favorites of the old South. The one-tone yellow and the bicolor 
Jonquils combine with the various Narcissus to perfume the gar¬ 
den for weeks while, close on their heels follow the Darwin Tulips. 
As an edging for Jonquil and Tulip beds, Sweet Alyssum is charm¬ 
ing, varied with patches of the Clove-Pink in its various shades of 
flesh, mauve and pink. Sweet Alyssum blooms almost perpetually. 
