36 A Little Maryland Garden 
quality. The slender petals were ranged 
on one side of the stem, and the pistils and 
stamens were very long, which added to the 
lightness and fragility of its appearance. 
I knew two gardens where there were clumps 
of it. It bloomed continuously till frost, 
and as the flowers faded the flower heads 
would be prolonged, sending out fresh 
blossoms. Altogether it was a delightful 
plant, and I thought of sending a descrip- 
tion of it to the Garden Magazine. As the 
local florist could not identify it, it seems 
as if we were justified in believing that we 
had found ‘‘some new thing.” But when 
January came, and garden thoughts were 
beginning to ferment, and catalogues to 
atrive, there came one from Childs’s nur- 
sery, in which there was a picture of my 
flower. The cut was a poor one, but 
there was no mistaking the graceful leaves, 
the airy stamens, and one-sided flowers. It 
was called Cleome, and was described in 
Henderson’s handbook of plants as growing 
wild in some of the Southern and Western 
