COLUMBINES 69 



to fear lest their flowers should be made too large; for 

 the best hybrids have a growth and leafage vigorous 

 in proportion to the size of their flowers, and double 

 columbines, luckily, are quite out of fashion, being 

 found usually only among the varieties of Aquilegia 

 vulgaris. In fact the columbine is a flower of the 

 future even more than of the present. 



