GARDENS NEAR THE SEA 



common name of garden heliotrope, and has again taken 

 its place in many gardens of importance. 



As attractive, piquant perennials opening in the 

 early days of the German iris, the columbines are 

 well established. Their foliage is especially dainty, 

 and their flowers occur in so many colors and such 

 varied forms, their spurs being short, of medium size, 

 or astonishingly long, that it is futile to attempt to 

 keep pace with them all. 



They are among the easiest of all perennials to 

 raise from seed. When sown in the late summer, 

 the plants will make good growth, and be ready to 

 bloom the next year. They prefer to be sown where 

 they are to blossom, requiring merely to be thinned 

 out about a foot apart as they leave the seedling 

 stage. 



Aquilegia Canadensis, the native rock bell, with 

 flowers of clear red and yellow, is one of the most 

 suitable of the family to introduce among rockwork. 

 It is also an interesting plant to preserve near the 

 home, since it is one of our wild flowers that is speedily 

 vanishing. 



A. chrysantha, golden columbine, which comes from 

 the mountains of California, is one of the best varieties, 

 not only on account of the beauty of its long spurs, 

 but because of the unusual duration of its bloom. 

 A. eoervlea is the well-known blue-and-white variety 

 of the Rocky Mountains, and A. Calif ornica is distinct 

 and striking in type. 



There is a garden not more than four hundred feet 

 from the Sound wherein a collection of different types 



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