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The Best Purple and Lavender Flowers 
(Continued from page 72) 
more less imposing. Either or both are 
good. 
It would be worth while to have a 
garden devoted to purple flowers if for 
no other purpose than to indulge one¬ 
self in the phloxes that run to this 
shade, and so must be kept rigidly sep¬ 
arated from the rest of their family 
that run in the opposite color direction. 
Nothing in the world is more awful 
than a phlox planting showing both; 
and few things are more awful than the 
varieties of phlox in purple when seen 
in combination with anything else. Yet 
they are too beautiful to be omitted al¬ 
together ; so what is there to do but 
have a purple garden for them alone? 
One of the most brilliant is B. Comte 
—a royal purple; von Hochber is an¬ 
other, a vinous crimson-purple; Mme. 
Paul Dutrie is one of the loveliest of the 
lighter colors, an orchid shade of mauve; 
Obergartner Wittig is considered the 
best of the maroon or magenta color; La 
Vague is purest mauve. These are all 
of the midsummer flowering class. 
Earlier to bloom is Phlox suffruticosa, 
of which Hercules is the mauve or lilac 
example. 
In the comparatively new race of 
phloxes which has been named Phlox 
Arendsi, which blooms from the end of 
May through June and well to the end 
of July, there are Amanda, only V high, 
which has lilac flowers with a touch 
of darker color at their centers; and 
Charlotte, taller by 6", with large, pale 
lavender flowers that are warmed with 
an overlay of pink. And then there is 
the charming little creeping phlox that 
blooms in early spring, which has a 
lavender or lilac variety— Phlox sub- 
ulata lilacina. This is not to be con¬ 
founded with the rather painful rose- 
purple of this plant usually seen. For 
some reason or other there are few more 
objectionable things than this, although 
it is a color that in other flowers very 
often has great charm. 
For early spring Primula ccerulea pro¬ 
vides a deep shade of purple that is re¬ 
freshing and lovely. Its flowers are 
large, too, for a primrose, and it blos¬ 
soms abundantly. Scabiosas bloom 
from June to September, one variety 
(Scabiosa caucasica ) alone doing this. 
This is a soft and delicate shade of lav¬ 
ender, suitable for the middle distance, 
growing about 18" high. Scabiosa Ja- 
ponica blooms from July to September, 
is taller—about 2' high usually—and 
had flowers a little more inclined to blue. 
One of the splendid midsummer pur¬ 
ple flowers is the so-called crimson 
meadow sweet ( Spiraa palmata) which 
has flowers a little more inclined to blue, 
its purple-crimson flowers. It is a lux¬ 
uriant 3' thing, and is in bloom through 
June and July. Under no circumstances 1 
omit this. 
Good Native Flowers 
Happily the Stokes’ aster is lavender 
—for it is one of the finest flowers we 
have quite apart from color. Moreover, 
it is also a native; and I must confess 
to a partiality for native material. There 
is a white variety, too, but the lavender 
is Stokesia cyanea. From Junp until 
September this is covered with flowers. 
• Its height is about 1 YY and it will 
grow almost anywhere. Use it singly 
if you have small space; or, in large 
masses if you can. 
Meadow rue is another native plant 
of great charm; usually it is the white 
form that is planted in flower gardens. 
Try the rose-purple Thalictrum aquilegi- 
folium atropurpureum in the purple 
garden, in at least one good sized clump. 
It is from 2' to 3' high, and blossoms 
from May to July. 
Last but not least—and first in point 
of blooming time—is the lovely trillium, 
the “wake robin” of common speech. It 
is Trillium erectum, not as showy as the 
great white wood-lily, but making lovely 
spots of color in early spring, under the 
shade of trees or high growing shrubs. 
Although there are several early 
blooming tilings in this color, I have 
always been struck by the fact that a 
large percentage of the purple flowers 
come during the middle of summer and 
early in autumn. So while all-summer 
bloom is possible in such a garden, it 
is also possible to make it distinctly a 
garden of late summer display. A con¬ 
sideration of this factor of time of bloom 
often helps in selecting the plants, when 
otherwise the resources are bewildering. 
My own preference would lead me to 
choose above all others, the trillium, the 
iris, the hardy asters, the hollyhock men¬ 
tioned, the phloxes, the spirea, the 
Stokes’ aster or Stokesia, and the 
meadow rue; and if I were limited to 
six different things instead of eight, I 
should cut down by eliminating the 
hollyhock and rue. 
A CORRECTION 
Through an omission, the name of the Myer Studio was 
not mentioned in connection with the article on “Persian 
Motifs in Furniture” in- the January number. The ex¬ 
amples of Persian work illustrating the article were from 
the Myer Studio, and were shown by courtesy of that studio. 
