. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. io8 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. purest and best. A vase full of these golden flowers is a magnificent and unquestionable proof of the fact that na- ture's colors are far beyond the artist's pigments in both purity and brilliancy. The garden is incomplete without a good sized bed of this incomparably bright annual; it does not need a neigh- borhood of anything else but
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. io8 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. purest and best. A vase full of these golden flowers is a magnificent and unquestionable proof of the fact that na- ture's colors are far beyond the artist's pigments in both purity and brilliancy. The garden is incomplete without a good sized bed of this incomparably bright annual; it does not need a neigh- borhood of anything else but green. It is not necessary to specify any particular variety, because all are equally hand- Golden Blooms. some, and white is a describe. E5CHSCH0LTZIA. all look well intermixed. The so-called color extremely delicate, and I should it as yellowish cream. Eschscholtzia grows splendidly in sandy soil, must be planted where it is to remain, and needs little or no care, if below its roots there is a moder- ate supply of plant food, and over its head falls a little -water in hot weather at eventide. This is a splendid plant for decora- tive effects, and it is easily grown, White Dianthus. although it is very slow in coming to maturity. The bright coloring of the variety called Heterophylla is especially desirable for the neighborhood of any sober green foliage, plants or shrubbery. Also the variety named Variegata (Snow on the Mountain) will be found as lovely as it is useful in pro- ducing those effects of color and form which go a great way toward making the garden beautiful. Unless we exert ourselves to obtain such novel and beautiful elements for gar- den adornment we cannot avoid the commonplace ; and it is the commonplace which is farthest removed from the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origina
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