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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 1914 
“tight-wad” Pompon “A. D. Livoni" is an attractive one of 
amaranthine pink; “Delice” is a decorative of loveliest clear 
amaranthine pink, paler than “Livoni”; “Mrs. Roosevelt” is a 
show, with large flowers of palest amaranth; and “Pink Pearl,” a 
good cactus, clear, pale amaranth and 
white. 
The pink gladioli are lovely. “Ameri¬ 
ca” is the best, a lovely, pale amaranth; 
size, form and color are all superlative. 
Among the later rose pinks are the 
two Ledumo (S. spectabilis), the im¬ 
proved Japanese live-forever and the 
adorable little lover’s wreath (S. Lie- 
boldii ), which is a trailing plant with 
small, round blue-green leaves bordered 
with rose and rose-pink flowers. Rather 
coarse for a small garden, but of quaint 
and attractive color, is Eupatorium pur- 
purenm, or plain Joe-Pye weed. It is 
a faded color, known as eupatorium 
purple. There are a number of rose- 
hued chrysanthemums; one a very com¬ 
mon, deep amaranth variety, nameless, 
and generally to be had for the asking — 
as, indeed, are the two dear little pink 
“Artemisias” of our grandmothers; 
one about the size of a ten-cent piece, 
and one larger, perhaps the size of a 
quarter. Of the newer early flowering 
varieties, “L’Aube’ is good, and 
“Mignon,” also good, but much paler. 
Of rose-pink annuals, the lupines are good; the larkspur, va¬ 
riously called “Newport Pink,” “Newport Scarlet” and “Lus¬ 
trous Carmine,” is both charming and useful; the individual 
flowers are apt to be streaked with purple, but tbe effect in mass is 
too valuable a color 
note to be lost on that 
account. The pink 
cornflowers are lovelv 
in color of both flower 
and foliage; palest 
rose and silvery 
green. The annual 
mallows, like the per¬ 
ennial ones, are good, 
clear, bright rose. 
There is a fairly good 
rose-pink Phlox 
D r u m in 0 n d i, and 
there are exceedingly 
good verbenas, from 
the very palest tint to 
the fine, bright “Beau¬ 
ty of Oxford,” which 
last does not come 
true from seed, and 
must be bought or 
slipped. There are 
numerous rose-hued 
petunias, mostly ugly, 
though a few may be 
good. The China aster, usually listed as “carmine,” is a very 
ugly Tyrian rose, but there is also a lovely pale rose in several 
shapes. There is a really pretty zinnia of a Tyrian pink (which 
is much paler and softer than Tyrian rose), but pink zinnias are 
always risky — they are apt to be a wicked magenta. Last, and 
among the loveliest, is the rose-pink (not the so-called “crim¬ 
son"!) cosmos. There are many other rose-hued flowers, but 
those mentioned are best for utility and beauty. 
The yellow, or creamy, pinks, though less numerous, are more 
beautiful. There are about six tones 
of these; hermosa is a lovely, pale tint; 
cosine is deeper and brighter, and be¬ 
gonia rose a beautiful, deeper tone; 
these three are tints of pure spectrum 
red. The three that are a little more 
yellow in hue are pale La France, 
deeper geranium and deepest and bril¬ 
liant Rose doree. There are several yel¬ 
low-pink tulips. The May-flowering 
"John Ruskin” is “salmon rose, edged 
lemon yellow” (dealer's description), 
but in mass gives a bright, creamy-pink 
effect. Of the Darwins, “Clara Butt,” 
which is quite bright in mass; “Fla¬ 
mingo," a delicate and lovely tint; 
“Reine Wilhelmine,” very pale; and 
“Yolande,” bright and a fine flower, are 
all cream-pink of varying tones and 
hues. “Pride of Haarlem” is a beauty, 
very bright and rather difficult to place 
in the color scale — or in the garden, for 
that matter—but well worth planting 
alone. 
There are good, cream-pink peonies; 
Kelway's beautiful single “Pink Pearl” 
is a treasure of a bermosa pink; “Mme. 
Ducel" and “Souvenir de Charles Gombault” are good double 
ones. There is a charming geranium-pink Oriental poppy, “Sal¬ 
mon Queen,” and some of the unnamed hybrids are also of good, 
creamy tones. “Newport Pink” sweet william is the eosine tint 
mentioned before, 
and a fine, bright 
color. Remember 
that sweet williams 
revert if allowed to 
grow near the com¬ 
mon kind or mix¬ 
tures. Some holly¬ 
hocks are a good, 
deep hermosa pink. 
T h e cream - pink 
phloxes are lovelv; 
“Lockii" is a good La 
France pink ; “Evene- 
ment” is charming, a 
little deeper than her¬ 
mosa pink; a little 
deeper still, and per¬ 
haps the best of all, is 
“Elizabeth Campbell.” 
Of what may be 
called the flame-pink. 
“R. P. Struthers,” 
“Coquelicot” a 11 d 
“Etna” are all good, 
between the tones 
called begonia rose and Rose doree. Of the same flame hue are 
the fine gladioli “Independence,” “Taconic” and “Mme. Mon- 
neret”; also “Mrs. Francis King.” There are few creamy-pink 
dahlias, but many of differing hues of yellow, with rosy flushes 
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If carefully selected, a fine early pink is the variety Moss 
Pink of Phlox su bulala 
A pink garden is most effective if limited to this single shade or combined with whites and creams. 
Phlox and peonies strike the most important notes in this garden and tie the various beds together into 
one consistent scheme 
