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1914 
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to train over red brick walls! A. rapuncu- 
lordes is a fine, clear light violet, good for 
naturalizing, but will, if permitted, crowd 
everything except golden glow out of the 
border! 
A flower of a clear, pale bluish violet is 
th° purple funkia; it is not particularly ef¬ 
fective, but its really good color should be 
borne in mind when planting it for its 
foliage effect. 
The Monarda dstulosa, or wild berga¬ 
mot, is a most happy flower in the garden. 
It is shaped like the bee balm ( M. didy- 
ma ), but is more delicate; it is palest 
phlox-pink, taking up the lilac just where 
physostegia leaves the rose, and fits into 
almost any color scheme. 
There are several exceedingly good 
phloxes of the paler tones of violet and 
purple, and a few of the deeper ones; in 
fact, some of the finest purples of the gar¬ 
den are found in this class, but the true 
purple, while a wonderful color in itself, 
is almost impossible to combine with other 
flowers. “Lord Raleigh,” for example, is 
a splendid one, but completely shouts out 
everything else in the garden. “Comte von 
Hochberg” is also a fine color, a trifle red¬ 
der than “Lord Raleigh,” and ever harder 
to combine ; either would be beautiful, with 
white, against dark evergreens. “Eugene 
Danzanvilliers” is the palest tint of ame¬ 
thyst violet, called Hortense violet; “An¬ 
tonin Mercie” is lower growing and a lit¬ 
tle pinker, but about the same tone. “Nana 
coerulea” is a dwarf of a pale lavender 
violet. 
The exquisite Michaelmas daisies come 
in varying tones of purple, as well as the 
bluer ones already alluded to, and range 
from a pale phlox pink to a true purple. 
In general, however, the ones listed as 
“pink” are more nearly pale lilac. 
There are not many desirable purple 
annuals. Pansies, of course, in all hues; 
ugly little Mathiola bicornis, with its small 
lilac blossom, valuable and beloved for its 
delightful evening perfume; purple lark¬ 
spurs, not a good color and seldom two 
blossoms the same tone; purple cornflow¬ 
ers, a reddish raisin purple, not bad, but apt 
to overrun the garden and contaminate the 
other colors of the same flower, which 
seem to revert to this if it is allowed to 
self-sow in mixture; schizanthus, the but¬ 
terfly-flower (not butterfly-weed, which is 
Asclepias tuberosa, and an orange hue). 
The schizanthus comes in varying tones of 
pale and deeper purple, and is exceedingly 
pretty; it comes in other colors as well. 
The purple scabiosas (Mourning Bride) 
are good, a pale Hortense violet, and a pale 
violet of a bluer tone, as well as a very 
dark blue violet. There are very good 
dark violet verbenas, and a number of 
clear violet China asters of varying depth 
of tone, from pale to very deep. 
There are several purple gladioli; one of 
the best is “Baron Joseph ITulot,” which is 
almost a blackish violet, so deep and vel¬ 
vety is its tone. This is sometimes listed 
as synonymous with “Blue Jay,” but the 
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