GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



What flowers made this effect precisely I shall 

 probably never know. Anyway, a long border is 

 now planted thickly with Forget-me-nots and 

 Heavenly Blue Muscari." 



While on the subject of blue flowers, Aconi- 

 tum wilsonii (205-4 in the French Chart, Ridg- 

 way, deep, dull, bluish violet) is not at all a 

 flower of solid color, and it is curious to notice, 

 as it is held against the Ridgway page, how the 

 very gray of that page, a background for the 

 violet color squares, repeats the gray reflections 

 in the flowers of the aconite. If any one will take 

 the trouble to look at the lower half of Ridgway's 

 Plate No. 32, leaving out the black squares be- 

 low, he will get the whole general effect of Aconi- 

 tum wilsonii as grown in my garden. I have sel- 

 dom had such a disappointment in color as this. 

 Yes; one that was even greater, I remember, and 

 will tell of here. There appeared two years ago, 

 in an English gardening journal, a letter from a 

 writer all excitement over the new Sweet Peas. 

 He lamented his own inability to procure seed of 

 a novelty called "Mrs. Tom Jones" sent out by 

 Sydenham — a Sweet Pea of a ''true blue." My 

 curiosity aroused — that horticultural curiosity 

 which will not dow^n — I sent for four packets of 

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