THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



perbly, although their little roots had been sub- 

 jected to the test of a two weeks' journey by sea 

 and land from an English nursery to Michigan. 

 The flower spikes of these hybrid heucheras were 

 thirty-two inches high by actual measurement! 

 Another year, when well established, they should 

 send up even longer spikes. Their colors vary 

 from very rich coral-red -to pale sahnon, but in- 

 variably on the right side of pink — the yellow 

 rather than the blue. This encourages me to 

 think of them in connection with sweet-wilUam 

 Sutton's Pink Beauty (Newport pink). Next 

 year I hope to see the heucheras' tall delicate 

 sprays emerging from the flat lower masses of the 

 others' bloom, since they flower simultaneously. 

 Long after the sweet-william has gone to its 

 grave upon the dust heap, however, the heu- 

 cheras continue to wave their lacelike pennants of 

 bright color. I hardly know of any plant which 

 has so long a period of bloom. The only heu- 

 cheras familiar to me before were the common 

 species H. sanguinea and the much-vaunted va- 

 riety Rosamunde. While these are very beauti- 

 ful, they have not with me the height nor the 

 generally robust appearance necessary for full ef- 

 fect in mass planting. The leaves of H. Richard- 



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