The Blue Flower Border 



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flower and no foliage. I am ever reminded of blue 

 mould, of stale damp. I looked with inexpressible 

 aversion on a photograph of Cecil Rhodes' garden 

 at Cape Town — several solid acres set with this blue 

 Hydrangea and 

 nothing else, 

 unbroken by 

 tree or shrub, 

 and scarce a 

 path, growing 

 as thick as a 

 field sown with 

 ensilage corn, 

 and then I 

 thought what 

 would be the 

 color of that 

 mass! that crop 

 of Hydrangeas! 

 Yet I am told 

 that Rhodes is 

 a flower-lover 

 and flower- 

 thinker. Now 

 this Aquilegia 

 was of similar 

 tint; it was 

 blue, but it was not a pleasing blue, and additional 

 plants of pink, lilac, and purple tints had to be 

 added before the Aquilegia was really included in 

 our list of well-beloveds. 



There are other flowers for the blue border. It 



Salpiglossis. 



