A Little Maryland Garden 163 
neering and inharmonious flower must go, 
and each season its splendid masses of bloom 
win the day again. Now I have decided 
that it shall stay, but on conditions. It 
must be all massed in one spot, between 
althea bushes whose cool whites and laven- 
ders make a harmonious environment. No- 
thing is to be planted near that can clash 
with it, and it can riot in the sun without 
offence to other flowers. 
Going among the shrubs the other day 
I found the Forsythia suspensa had quite 
a number of golden flowers well opened. 
No doubt this is the result of such a wet, 
rainy summer, and perhaps will interfere 
with its spring bloom. 
The clematis sent me from the mountains 
of West Virginia, the wild ‘‘traveller’s joy,” 
or “‘virgin’s bower,”’ is starred with flowers. 
Its leaf is prettier than that of the clematis 
paniculata, more deeply cut, and not so 
leathery, but it turns rusty early. It has a 
wonderful grace of its own, and hangs in 
graceful wreaths on the wall. 
