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House & Garden 
Home of Russell Von Beren, New Haven, Conn. 
Two months after Plantings were made. 
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The Rich Colors of Tulip Gardens 
(Continued from page 57 ) 
by the partly-stuccoed wall of the old 
stone stable, where the color scheme 
started with the pale yellow of the 
pointed cottage tulips, Ellen Willmott, 
and the primrose yellow of the fra¬ 
grant Mrs. Keightleys and softened into 
the clouded old gold of Jaune d’Oeuf 
and the golden bronze of the Bronze 
Queen. It is when you begin to select 
your tones and colors as subtly as that, 
that you begin to realize the possibili¬ 
ties of the May flowering tulips and the 
color enchantment they may bring into 
our every-day lives. And with these 
yellows of Ellen Willmott, Mrs. Keight- 
ley, Jaune d’Oeuf and the Bronze 
Queen, there was the flamed lilac of the 
Rembrandt tulips, Undine, and the blue 
amethyst of the Darwins, Valentine, and 
so you see that it needed a softening 
and greying of the golden tulips to 
use them subtly and beautifully with 
amethyst and lilac. 
On the second side of the garden, the 
tulips started with the rose Clara Butts, 
with the amethyst of the great Viking 
and the deeper amethyst of Morales 
and the golden bronze of the Bronze 
Queen. It speaks a world for the rose 
of the Clara Butt, for the atmospheric 
quality of its seeming brightness and it 
can be used in this way with the Vik¬ 
ings and Morales. And you can see, 
too, how careful Mrs. Barton was to 
keep the unity of her color scheme by 
thus bringing the rose of her pool into 
her side borders. On another side, the 
pink Flamingo and the German iris 
gave the major theme to the border, 
while on the fourth side the dark helio¬ 
trope and lilac mauve of the tall 
Ergustes were the major color notes. 
And you can see that despite this vari¬ 
ety in the tulips, despite their varying 
tones, there was a unity and continuity, 
with pink and rose, lilac and amethyst 
and purple and old gold repeated in 
various ways. 
It was the same with the edgings for 
the tulips. With the pointed yellow 
tulips, for instance, there was the cream 
of the intermediate irises and the soft 
creamy yellow of the primulas, cupped 
as they are in the shelter of their long, 
low, deeply-lined leaves. Then, too, 
there were the light yellow pansies, and 
in front of the undines and Valentines, 
phlox divaricata and purple pansies. 
Almost all the Wilmington gardens love 
pansies with tulips. And they are not 
always used as edgings. In one of the 
larger gardens, I saw pansies used like 
solid mats of color upon the ground 
with bays of tulips or iris between them 
—yellow tulips, for instance, with yel¬ 
low pansies and purple pansies with the 
iris. This is a valuable suggestion when 
you need an abrupt difference in heights 
in your effects. The main thing, how¬ 
ever, if you use pansies in this way, is 
not to mix the colors but to have them 
very carefully matched. 
At Mrs. Barton’s the smaller flowers 
were used only as edgings but they were 
worked spontaneously into the borders 
and were quite as suggestive in their 
combinations as the tulips themselves. 
There were, for instance, clear yellow 
tulips with cream iris and blue phlox. 
There were cream and yellow primulas 
and blue phlox with the Bronze Queen, 
blue phlox and deep blue pansies with 
the rich pansy violet of the Morales. 
There were lavender violas to match 
the lavender tulips, lavender violas with 
plum and purple tulips, and plum tulips 
with purple irises. Indeed, there seemed 
to be no end, no limit, to the flowers, 
to the tones and colors that you could 
assemble in a simple little garden such 
as this—only it was no longer a simple 
little garden at all but incomparably 
rich, as the smallest canvas may be in¬ 
comparably rich, with the color genius 
of our time. 
The garden of Mrs. F. G. Tallman 
which is also at Wilmington, is an oval 
garden with a pool in the centre and 
with four borders about it that in May 
are one lovely mass of tall-stemmed 
tulips. These tulips are arranged so 
simply but with such exquisite reserve 
and taste that you find yourself spell¬ 
bound. It is a very modern garden in 
its color scheme. It shows the May¬ 
flowering tulips that have again re¬ 
turned to the splendor of their old 
Dutch days, in an assembly of color that 
the new color impressionism of our time 
has made possible. 
Beginning at the ends of each border 
so that there are eight groups of them 
are the deep rose Clara Butts. Next 
to them are white Stanley Picotees 
edged with pink and the pale rosy 
Flamingoes, after which the pink blends 
into the lavender blue of the Dreams- 
Uterpes and the deeper richer amethyst 
of the Valentines, and then back again 
in the same order to the Clara Butts. 
ON HOUSE & GARDEN’S 
BOOK SHELF 
B ULB GARDENING by Mary 
Hampden. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 
Bulb gardening has been a heart¬ 
searching experience for people of many 
nations back to the Middle Ages. Poets 
have written about it, getting it all 
mixed up with religion, and equally im¬ 
aginative people have actually gambled 
in bulbs as we do today in stocks. 
People lost fortunes over the tulip 
called Viceroy. Family jewels were 
sold, as well as real estate; a single bulb 
was exchanged for “a thousand pounds 
of cheese” or “a silver drinking cup” or 
“twelve fat sheep” or “two tons of but¬ 
ter”. 
Today we are more moderate in our 
thirst for bulb beauty; nevertheless, 
there are intervals in every garden from 
May on through the summer months 
when certain types of loveliness and per¬ 
fume can only come from careful, dis¬ 
criminating bulb planting. Miss Hamp¬ 
den evidently knows the bulb world 
quite inclusively, and in her book on 
bulb gardening she goes into every detail 
that could interest the bulb lover and 
the bulb grower; because, of course, 
you can be fond of bulbs, your heart 
can stir over the first crocus on a bleak 
spring day and warm to the giant nar¬ 
cissi, without knowing one thing about 
planting, cultivating and developing a 
bulb garden. 
Even though you are only a bulb 
lover it is difficult to go through this 
volume without developing incipient 
stages of bulb-mania. As for the man 
or woman who knows something of 
bulbs and wants the correct bulb “sta¬ 
tions” in the garden, apparently all the 
information in the world is to be found 
here, beginning with Hardy Bulbs, fol¬ 
lowing with Glass House Bulbs and end¬ 
ing with Half-Hardy Bulbs. “Tulips,” 
Mary Hampden tells us happily, “will 
thrive in any ordinary garden border 
that has been manured months earlier”. 
Of course, following this information 
comes pages of instruction about dif¬ 
ferent kinds of tulip beds, the question 
of surface soil, watering, sticks and ties, 
how long plants must grow to produce 
bulbs for another season, etc. It seems 
possible to keep busy almost every 
month in the year if you really appre¬ 
ciate tulips and intend to line up with 
tulip worshipers. 
(Continued on page 116) 
