LATER FLOWERS 



violet, pearl-white. Here is a capital group. 

 The valerians are fast forming seed; Clematis recta 

 still pours its cascades of cream-white flowers 

 and buds down before opening delphiniums, and 

 in stated places low-spreading clustei"s of pink 

 ramblers brighten the garden, Ellen Poulson, 

 Louise Welter, and the dwarf crimson ramblers, 

 which shall in August be replaced by white flower- 

 ing ones, Yvonne Rabier perhaps. 



Cimidfuga simplex, established now after three 

 years in its place, blooms freely. Its tall, slim, 

 creamy spikes give welcome variety of line in time 

 of phloxes. I sometimes fancy that snake-flower, 

 not snake-root, would be the better name for these 

 flowers if they behave elsewhere as here. In 

 nearly every raceme there is a rectangular bend 

 toward the top. This is actually a slight defect. 

 Can it be due to dry weather, which we have had 

 in full measure this year? Or is it, so to say, 

 congenital? However, Cimidfuga simplex is 

 graceful, distinguished, lovely. A color arrange- 

 ment of flowers of quiet beauty is the tall spiral 

 mignonette, violet petunia beside it, with the 

 hyacinth-flowered lavender candytxift in bloom 

 below the two. 



There is near me a little garden whose dimen- 



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