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THE GARDENERS' MONTHLY 



[July. 



our warm climate, and we are without a first-class 

 blue adapted to carpet bedding. 



The lawns, walks and flower beds will still re- 

 quire constant care, and attention can be bestowed 

 at this season on improving the form of trees and 

 shrubs. In some parts of a large garden, trees 

 are in better keeping with surrounding scenery 

 when suffered to grow wild and pretty much to 

 themselves; but, near buildings, or in any part of 

 a garden which is to denote high keeping, symmetry 

 will ever be considered a chief element in beauty, 

 and the aim be, what after all is the true object of 

 gardening, an improvement in fact over the prettiest 

 natural scenes. Trees and shrubs can be made 

 as regular as we wish, by training a shoot here, 



not Crispa, but received no satisfaction from him, 

 and then sent it to Mr. Meehan, having tested his 

 kindly patience often enough to feel assured that 

 I would be enlightened as to its real botanical 

 name. The flower is a pale delicate lavender, 

 well-shaped, exactly like the Crispa offered this sea- 

 son as a novelty, and is a habitat of some localities 

 where I have collected the bulbs (alluded to on page 

 i8i, June issue, and which by authority of Profs. 

 Thos. Meehan, Asa Gray and Serene Watson I 

 now know to be Zephyranthus Atamasco) Fairy 

 Lily, and Clematis, abounds on our water courses. 

 I must have, in letter accompanying the specimen 

 sent, alluded to another rampant growing white 

 Clematis, I think Virginica, which dies off an- 



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and tying one there — now using a stake, at another 

 time employing a string. After a few weeks they 

 will grow is you have placed them, and exemplify 

 the adage, that "as the twig is bent the tree's in- 

 clined." The most malformed or ugliest specimen 

 of an evergreen may be made an exquisite "thing 

 of beauty" by such trifling care. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



CLEMATIS NATIVE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



BY MRS. J. S. R. THOMSON. 



Will not the Editor of Gardeners' Monthly 

 kindly correct a mistake which I note on page 185, 

 June issue, relative to a Clematis sent him, which 

 he describes as white ? whereas the flower which 

 I sent was pale lavender veined with white on in- 

 side of flower. I sent it to a florist to ask if it was 



nually, bearing in greatest profusion clusters of 

 exquisite white myrtle-like flowers, followed by 

 seed pods so beautiful and lasting that we use 

 them to mingle with our grass bouquets for winter 

 decoration when stern winter holds its icy sway. 

 I think it will simplify matters by saying that " R. 

 Thomson, Jr.," is my nam de plume, assumed to 

 avoid local criticism alone — which, dreaded so 

 much viewed afar, is not quite so terrible as my 

 vivid imagination painted it. Spartansburg, S. C. 



THE VARIEGATED EULALIA. 



BY CHARLES E. PARNELL. 



The variegated Japan Eulalia, Eulalia Japonica 

 variegata, is a very beautiful hardy perennial plant, 

 belonging to the natural order Graminaca:. 



It is a reed-like plant of robust habit forming 

 when well established large clumps from four to 



