► HOUSE AND GARDEN | 
May, 1913 
scarlet sage. Can you imagine anything 
more hideous? Knowing when to remove 
is almost as important as when to plant; 
I am ruthless when false notes are struck 
in my garden harmony. 
Salvia, used sparingly, with groups of 
varicolored colei scattered here and there 
to break the color line, is beautiful and 
satisfactory. With the soft greens of the 
lawn in front, the dark evergreens in 
the background, with only white flowers 
against its vivid masses of glowing red, 
the picture is all that could be desired. 
Julia Lester Dillon 
Zephyranthes — Pink and White 
A ROW of small brown bulbs below the 
surface of the garden bed. Above, 
a row of slender, dark green, grass-like 
leaves. A month or more of spring sun¬ 
shine; then, given either a warm rain or 
a soaking from the garden hose, and the 
zephyranthes buds — pink and crocus 
shaped — are up. No green calyx, no 
sheath nor covering veils their delicate 
color. A rapid growth of the slight, fleshy 
stem, and in less than a week from the 
first start there is a swaying row of blooms, 
in color a delicate, deep pink, as soft as 
panne velvet, and as perfect in texture. 
Nor is that all. After a blooming time 
lasting nearly a week, during which the 
beautiful blossoms, closing at night and 
opening fresh each morning, slowly fade 
into a softer pink, then droop away; and 
the border looks forlorn and dry and faded 
and you turn the water on it again just 
for pity—then, a few mornings after, there 
is another row of pink heads pushing out 
of the ground. Again the quick growth 
and sudden expansion of blooms, another 
swaying row of beautiful flowers, and 
more of them than at the first blooming. 
All summer long this is repeated, but with 
fewer blossoms as the season goes. Start¬ 
ing with perhaps two hundred blooms at 
one time in a row twenty feet long and 
four or five inches across, the zephyran¬ 
thes gradually diminish until, toward the 
close of the summer, there will be only a 
dozen blooms. 
Six broad, pointed petals constitute the 
bloom, opening out flat when fully grown. 
Each blossom is single on its stem, and 
from three and a half to four inches 
across, the waxy, white pistil rising well 
above the bright yellow anthers. The 
whole forms a picture absolutely unique 
in color and grace. 
Why are they so little known ? Perhaps 
one reason is that they are very fragile; 
and while they keep well in water, yet the 
petals are so easily broken in handling 
that it is difficult to carry a bouquet to a 
friend. As cut flowers, therefore, the flor¬ 
ists do not handle them, and they lack this 
potent means of being advertised. 
The white Zephyranthes which differs 
from the pink variety in many ways is 
often called the bulb crocus, and the name 
is singularly appropriate. 
Lillie F. Shaw 
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