SEPTEMBER 213 



blue above its heart-shaped leaves, and a 

 polemonium called, as so many plants are, blue- 

 bells or Jacob's ladder flowers for nearly a 

 month. Drifts of exquisite phlox the " Sweet 

 William " of the children blow about in the 

 undergrowths like bits of vagrant clouds, having 

 an extraordinary change and play of colour, 

 and a fragrance as distinctly vernal as that 

 of the primrose itself. The tiny Quaker ladies, 

 or bluets, or innocence, or Houstonia, camps 

 down among the grasses, having a lesson of 

 its own to tell of the value of even the smallest, 

 least assertive plant when shown in masses, 

 and there is a Collinsia, which is innocence 

 also in some places, which is a lovely thing. 

 Other American blues are the mertinsias, 

 hepaticas, tradescantias, the viper's bugloss, 

 and the chicory, whose colour Mrs Clarke 

 most felicitously called "the Wedge wood blue." 

 Blue morning glories and ipomeas will reflect 

 the sky upon your lattice all summer long. 

 Campanulas will give you six weeks of flowering, 

 and the monkshoods can be depended on for a 

 grand showing, the depth of their colour being 

 that of deep water touched by some hidden 

 undercurrent, which produces no waves, but a 



