OTHER FLOWERS 



of the tones in Ridgway's plate No. XXIV from 

 pallid grayish violet-blue to deep chicory -blue with 

 tips of deep dull bluish violet. The pointed buds 

 are of a medium tone of lavender-blue and the 

 length of one branch of flowers is at least a foot. 

 Anything more delicately lovely than this new 

 herbaceous plant cannot be imagined. Its fra- 

 grance too commends it, again like a hyacinth in 

 this. For a space where white or pale color may 

 be desired for May and late August, may I sug- 

 gest an interplanting of this beauty from Nancy 

 with that delicious shrub. Viburnum carlesii, both 

 hardy with me through the severest test of all 

 cold weather, the winter of 1917-18? Clematis 

 Campanile needs careful staking; its flower clus- 

 ters are heavy and quickly bear down the delicate 

 branches to the ground. Mr. Arnold Forster, 

 writing on these less familiar clematises in "The 

 Garden," mentions clematis Cypris as a remark- 

 ably fine member of the group. "It is surprising 

 how seldom one sees Lemoine's beautiful hybrids 

 of C. Davidiana. Some of them are most valuable 

 in the border or in association with shrubs, having 

 at once rare and subtle color and delightful scent. 

 The newest sorts. Campanile and Oiseau Bleu, 

 which are derived from C. stans, do not seem to 



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