68 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



land, and in this country Vaughan of New York and Chicago 

 offer the seed of this adorable plant. 



Were we not all familiar in our youth with the morning glory 

 advancing along its small white strings, the orthodox guiding 

 given it years ago on its aspiring way? But now there is another 

 and a better management for such climbing flowering things. 

 Here above my head as I write, on a garden arch, that pale 

 mauve clematis Mme. Edouard Andre has flung out a ravishing 

 garland of large flowers. Incidentally I wish more of our gardens 

 had these large flowering clematises in their beds and borders. 

 Clematis Stella Dwyer, a climbing Davidii, is now in its second 

 year, a great flowering bush of delicate lavender bells; and back 

 of it, to return to our subject, that magnificent blue of the 

 I'pomcea ruhro-coBrulea (var. prcBCox) is just beginning to show 

 its beauty, and as the new hardy aster near by from Totty 

 (Mrs. D. Mitchell, said to be a very beautiful pink, finer than 

 St. Egwin) comes into its full bloom, I look for such an effect 

 as Mrs. Lloyd has achieved in her lovely Haverf ord garden where 

 the Ipomcea wreaths its sky-blue fans about tall plants of Aster 

 tataricus. Both were in full beauty in early October of last year. 



It is vitally necessary, in order to have the Mexican morning- 

 glory in bloom by August in the border, that it should be started 

 early in pots, the plants set out after danger from frost is over. 



As I was writing the few sentences above, in came an English 

 journal with one of Miss Jekyll's short articles called "Regu- 

 lating the Flower Border,'* in which the writer tells of a strong- 

 growing hybrid clematis, planted just behind an everflowering 

 pea, to bloom in August after the pea bloom is over. "The 

 clematis," says Miss Jekyll, "is a natural hybrid that occurred 

 in the garden ; the parentage is evidently C. vitalba and C. David- 

 iana. The same cross has taken place in other gardens, and I 

 believe has been given a name, which at the moment I do not 



