March, 1914 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
223 
Choosing Flowers, Etc. 
(Continued from page 187) 
.so it is, but it is a glorified red-lead; you 
can't banish it; it is too beautiful. If you 
have a large garden you can isolate it; if 
you have a small one put a bush of wei- 
gelia Candida (white) behind it, plenty of 
soft white, such as Valeriana officinalis 
around it; put your pink and purple as far 
away as possible, shut your eyes and ears 
to the rest of the garden, and “let 'er 
shout.’’ T revel in one joyous week of bar¬ 
barism every June and “color scheme” for 
the rest of the year to make up for it. But 
you must make up your mind to subside 
for that one week, and let the poppy dom¬ 
inate everything. 
A scarlet flower, in color almost as vivid 
as the poppy, but with much less show of 
bloom, is the Scarlet Lightning ( Lychinis 
Chalcedoniao. The flower heads are about 
two inches across and are composed of 
small four petaled flowers, which give the 
plant another name of “Maltese Cross.” 
It is a good color and a useful flower in 
the border, hardy and gay. The variety 
“Haageana” has very much larger flowers 
and is a splendid color. There are very 
good Snapdragon of a deeper, more vel¬ 
vety scarlet than the Poppies or Lychinis. 
Certain Phlox, notably Ferdinand Cor¬ 
tez and Coquelicot. verge upon the scarlet, 
and Miss Jekyll uses the latter in some of 
her scarlet borders, but if one may venture 
to disagree with so great an authority, it 
seems not quite deep enough to be accept¬ 
able, and this is the criticism I would make 
of all the so-called scarlet Phlox; they are 
really a flame-pink. 
There are, however, some wonderful 
scarlet gladioli; the old and inexpensive 
Brenchlyensis is good, and one of the 
finest newer ones is Princeps, which has a 
wonderful, widely opened, blossom, 
marked, but not to the point of splashiness, 
with white. It is one of the most beautiful 
blossoms I have seen. 
Pentstemon (or Chelone ) Barbartus 
Torreyii is a loudly praised scarlet flower, 
and it is very pretty, but, to my mind, not 
quite so wonderful as advertised. It is, 
however, quite good enough to include in 
the scarlet border ; it is only a sort of Aris¬ 
tides the Just among flowers, so much has 
been said in its praise that one is a little 
disappointed in the reality and tired of 
hearing about it. 
There are numerous fine scarlet dah¬ 
lias ; advance and Firebrand are beauties 
of the cactus type, and Souvenir de Gon- 
stave Douzon is a splendid decorative. 
These all have an orange tinge. There is 
a very brilliant scarlet ponpon, the name 
of which I cannot yet place accurately. 
The dahlias are about the latest scarlet 
perennials, as I know of no scarlet chrys¬ 
anthemums. 
Turning to the scarlet annuals, the va¬ 
rious red poppies are delicate and good. 
There is a very fair scarlet phlox Drum- 
mondi, but it is not quite so good as the 
other colors. I have already spoken of 
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