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nana alba from Japan is another distinct 
form. The “common” Dutch-looking 
double, prettiest in white, and the “com¬ 
mon” single, in pink, pure white, white 
tinted with mauve, and pale blue, I grow 
for the sake of variety, and a few of the 
darker purples and blues to accentuate 
the colors of the more delicate types. 
The most beautiful are the very long 
spurred forms like chrysantha and caeruUa, 
and the number of different colorings in 
these is astonishing. There is every shade 
of china blue and lavender blue in self 
colors and combined with white or purple, 
there is pure white, lemon white, and 
palest yellow, yellow shading to pink, and 
yellow and lavender, pinks and mauves 
shading to white. 
I have noticed an interesting form 
among my flowers this year which is large 
and fairly long spurred with a semi¬ 
double corolla. There is also, for the first 
time, an exquisite flesh pink shading to 
palest yellow, somewhat of the canadensis 
form of flower, but more upright and 
taller in growth of stem and leaf. 
Conditions here must vary greatly from 
those in New England, where an author 
writes that single columbines will, if sown 
early, blossom the same season. It was 
Bacon who called the columbine “com¬ 
mendable” and I think he was not wrong. 
The Right Place for the Garden 
Arch 
{Continued from page 21) 
agination may make the foreground — all 
that lies this side of the arch — smooth 
turf, tangled wildwood, simple village 
street, or anything else that is distinctively 
different from all that lies beyond; any¬ 
thing will be better than the sameness that 
actually is. Be sure that whatever looks 
better in a picture will look better in a 
garden — which is simply a living picture. 
The two arches made of spruce poles 
draped with hop vine, in the right-hand 
corner of the page, suffer from the same 
faulty treatment of approach. Here was 
an opportunity for doing, in a very in¬ 
formal way, what has been done formally 
in th*e illustration at the beginning of this 
article, but it is an opportunity lost. The 
flowers should have been confined to the 
space between the two arches — to a rect¬ 
angle to which these would serve as en¬ 
trances — or else they should stop outside 
the arches, leaving this rectangle between 
them devoted to something different. 
(When I speak of the rectangle between 
them, it is, of course, understood that I 
mean a rectangle lying to the right as 
one looks at the picture — where the flow¬ 
ers now are — and not simply the oblong 
space actually between the two arches, 
along which the walk runs.) 
The second proposition to be considered 
is that an arch, giving distinction to the 
section which it adorns, must be placed in 
a section of distinction. It focuses at- 
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