. 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. PERENNIAL AND VAKIOIS PLANTS. l6l Bold Flowers. If there is any one of Flora's children which is not bold, it is the graceful columbine ; yet both flower and leaf are conventional in character. I do not fancy the blue-purple varieties myself, but they are quite pretty as blue flowers go. The common, wild, red and yellow variety is charming; so is that one named Chrysan
. 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. PERENNIAL AND VAKIOIS PLANTS. l6l Bold Flowers. If there is any one of Flora's children which is not bold, it is the graceful columbine ; yet both flower and leaf are conventional in character. I do not fancy the blue-purple varieties myself, but they are quite pretty as blue flowers go. The common, wild, red and yellow variety is charming; so is that one named Chrysantha and the other named Chrys- antha alba. The columbine deserves a foreground position. Foxglove IS bold in every sense of the word ; its stalks are tall, its stem is sturdy, and the flower is characterized by a stern simplicity well worth one's study. The colors are aesthetic, and the magenta-crimson variety is ^ too handsome to pass without special men- ^ -yn^^^- tion. The double pink holly-hock is a d\<^j %V^ prize for any garden ; one regrets that <^^i^ l^^"^^'^y it is not more hardy in a northern ' ' ''â ' * climate ; but with care it rewards one with magnificent, delicately tinted flowers like the rose in pro- fusion of crowding petals. The other colors are very beautiful, but the pink and the white seem to me especially attractive. For the single holly- its character of stateliness with unapproachable solidity, and it will be a long while before the dear old-fashioned flower will lose its popularity. What would a garden be without it ? With the lily and the sunflower it offers us the most splendid opportunities for strong relief against dark backgrounds. Lantana and heliotrope are two estimable characters de- serving a strong position in the garden beds where there are a goodly number of white flowers. Aconite is a splen- II. An Old-Fash- ioned Favorite that matter, hock holds boldness and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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