VARIETY IN NEWER FLOWERS 69 



recall." This I thought might be Stella Dwyer. I sent a photo- 

 graph to Miss Jekyll for identification, and received this in- 

 teresting reply: "Your clematis is so much like mine I think we 

 may safely conclude that it is the same, and that when the two 

 evident parents are in one garden, the cross is likely to occur. 

 It has been noted, and I think named, in other gardens also. It 

 is evidently Davidiana and vitalba. It is like vitalha in its rampant 

 growth, but like Davidiana in being herbaceous. Anyhow, it is 

 a useful plant. I had two that appeared in different parts of 

 the garden : one nearly white, the other tinged bluish. It is best 

 used rambling through something bushy. My oldest plant 

 rushes up a holly." 



Staked to about four feet and a half, our own plants with 

 their rich foliage are thickly set with great clusters of gray-green 

 buds almost as heavy as grapes, and their lavender-blue flowers 

 with white centres are opening from these. To the tip of every 

 curving spray are clusters of these enchanting buds and flowers. 

 Clematis Stella Dwyer should never be absent from any garden 

 or border where variety is a thing desired. Like all of the family, 

 the plant loves lime. Its photograph with the new Mexican 

 morning-glory appears opposite page 68. 



Always and ever am I sounding the praises of Hall's amaryllis, 

 Lycoris squamigeray and how can I forbear to do this when each 

 year sees this garden more and more lovely for its blooming in 

 mid-August. This is the flower of da\vTi. All the hues of the 

 earliest sky are in these petals — rose, pale violet, faint blue. 

 The effect in the late evening light is of mounds of pure rosy 

 pink. It harmonizes with everything aroimd it. It glorifies 

 the garden from morning to night, and gives me many 

 penitent moments as I think of my impatience with the too- 

 long lingering of its heavy drooping leaves throughout the 

 early summer. 



