THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



Peake, in his delightful little handbook, men- 

 tions as the only blue-flowering Cynoglossum the 

 variety pidum or creticum, from southern Europe, 

 and calls it a hardy biennial. Bailey seems to scorn 

 the whole tribe with such words as tall, coarse, 

 weedy, but adds: "A new plant, C. furcatum, has 

 recently been introduced. It is a hairy herb, one 

 to three feet high, with large leaves and blue 

 flowers in clusters as in forget-me-not." This 

 comes from India and flowers in June. All the 

 Cynoglossums are of the Borage family and their 

 common name is Hound's Tongue. 



Speaking of blue flowers, a bit of the pleasure 

 of quoting a paragraph from Mrs. Cran's "The 

 Garden of Ignorance" will not be denied me: 



"A child set me a problem for a color picture 

 last autumn. We were talking garden talk. I 

 said I was planning pretty colors to plant now, 

 ready for springtime, and I went on rashly: *Tell 

 me the prettiest thing you ever saw in a garden 

 and I will try to make it for you to see next April.' 

 The nearest he could get to what was evidently a 

 very strong and beloved memory picture ran thus: 

 *A blue cloud it was, you know, all feathery blue, 

 like a cloud, and it had bluer things in it like 

 swords, you know, like blue swords they were.' 

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