A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



of no rambler like this, of none to approach it in 

 distinction of color and form. Aviateur Bleriot 

 has a similar bud, rich copper color; but its flower 

 is less interesting. Again, Ghiselaine de Fehgonde 

 lacks the delicious fragrance of Aviateur Bleriot. 

 Three to four blooms of Ghiselaine are open at 

 once, held out on finely stiff stems. What with 

 its surprising beauty of flower, its rare color and 

 form and its interesting name, a name which 

 Maurice Hewlett may have known and used in 

 tales of the moyen age, this rose is a distinct addi- 

 tion to any garden or collection. Aviateur Bleriot 

 is a little bomb-shaped rose, reminding one of 

 a quilled dahlia of cream-white, but without the 

 upturned quillings of each petal. Here the square 

 and tiny petals are spread and shghtly reflexed. 

 Last week the charm of the garden lay principally 

 in the silvery valerian and the violet Campanula 

 lactiflora. To-day it is interesting to see some of 

 this color persist, but through other media. The 

 mantle of the campanula has fallen upon Salvia 

 virgata nemorosa, whose upright violet spikes now 

 rise back of Stachys lanata. Beyond the salvia's 

 purple stand finely developed plants of the lightest 

 of all the Arendsii phloxes, almost white. From 

 the ground up the colors run thus — silvery gray, 



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