It is my conviction that, during the hottest period of the yearly round, one can best express the sensation of coolness by offering a select array of small flowers of intensely vivid hues. By positioning the white wild pink between the deep blue of the upper bellflower and the palest crimson of the lower, primitive lychnis, it seems possible to bring out the respective colors of both of the latter.

　　In the case of the remaining materials, I have deliberately chosen the smallest and least exuberantly-formed examples available to me, and used these only extremely sparsely .