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It often survives the winter and should be clipped from time to 
time to make it take a fresh start. The Pinks (Dianthus) come out 
in April and bloom profusely for several weeks. If you cut all the 
dead blooms off, they will be dormant for a while and start bloom¬ 
ing again in June. 
March sees the Lilacs come and go, blending in tone with the 
Wisteria where space permits a vista and with the early white 
Florentina and purple Germanica Iris. Stocks in shades of laven¬ 
der, and Wild Flowers of yellow and bronze, tone in with the 
picture. Under the Red Buds make a planting of Tulips, Dream, 
Moonlight, and Clara Butt , in drifts, down to an edging of Phlox 
divaricata and pale yellow Phlox Drummondii. This makes a pic¬ 
ture in soft pastel shades. Approach this picture if possible through 
pillars of Hugonis, or an arch of Lady Banksia, for the clear yellow 
of both these Roses has a luminous quality that is unique. 
After the Tulips go, the Iris symphony of color begins. It starts 
the first week of April and lasts in all its rich and gorgeous color¬ 
ing through the second week of May. The color combination are 
endless—deep purples and lavenders, yellow and blue, vivid dwarf 
varieties in bronze, pink, mauve, and the numberless two-toned 
ones. 
Choose your colors and plant in alternating clumps or drifts 
down a long border. Put the pale shades in the foreground and the 
stronger colors further away. There is no flower that repays us 
in this climate like the Iris. None that stands more neglect and 
none that responds more to intelligent care. With Iris nothing is 
lovelier than Aquilegia (Columbine). The long-spurred varieties 
(Mrs. Scott Elliott strain) are a tremendous advance over the old 
ones. A mauve shade with white, purple, or yellow Iris is beauti- 
tiful, and the delicacy of the Columbine makes it a fitting com¬ 
panion for the queenly flower of France. 
The earliest dwarf varieties of Lemon Lilies (Hemerocallis) are 
blooming now, as well as Sweet William in various shades of pink. 
The Oxford, salmon pink, is the loveliest, and the white with rosy 
eye is a general favorite, with dark, velvety-red for the more dis¬ 
tant borders. Behind them in the borders grow the taller plants, 
The 
Mid-Season 
Bloom 
Iris 
Succession 
of Bloom 
Plant in 
Drifts 
