AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



Anchusa Italica, or Alkanet, is a vigorous plant 

 which grows three or four feet high, and bears 

 numerous panicled racemes of small dark blue 

 Forget-me-Not-like flowers. It blooms a long 

 time, and a plant or two in the wild garden will 

 not be objectionable, though why one nursery- 

 man calls it " a very useful perennial," I cannot 

 for the life of me determine, it being quite useless 

 for cutting, the blossoms fading before you reach 

 the house and refusing to revive in water. 



Baptisia australis, or False Indigo, is a vigor- 

 ous, hardy plant which attains a height of three 

 feet or more, bearing racemes of dark blue Lupine- 

 like flowers. It is easily raised from seed, and a 

 plant or two will not come amiss in large gardens. 



Polemonium cosruleum, or Jacob's Ladder, is a 

 hardy plant with very attractive, fern-like foliage, 

 growing three feet or more in height, and bearing 

 in profusion small blue flowers throughout the 

 summer. It is easily raised from seed. 



Veronica spicata, or Speedwell, is a hardy plant 

 three feet high which bears long spikes of small 

 blue flowers. It is easily propagated from seed, 

 and spreads like a weed from self-sowing. 



Centaurea montana, a perennial species of Corn- 

 flower, known as Mountain Knapweed, is a 



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