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me to be as good as some of the older sorts, such 

 as Cypris; during the three or four seasons in 

 which I have grown them they have never made 

 anything like such a fine effect as one had expected 

 from an illustration in Lemoine's catalogue. Per- 

 haps the plants want a rather different treatment 

 from what I have given them; they are evidently 

 semi-scandent in habit. Cypris, on the other 

 hand, is sufficiently erect to need little or no 

 staking. The flowers are much more beautiful 

 in shape and have a smell something like that of 

 cowslips. The silvered blue of the flower clusters 

 is too subtle a color for association with violent 

 yellow, such as that of the helianthuses, but with 

 the pale, clean yellow of a good hybrid of Gladi- 

 olus primulinus it is very happy." 



Let us leave this fascinating subject after men- 

 tion of a new clematis recommended by Mr. 

 Egan, but which I do not know. It is clematis 

 Ina Dwyer, originating in the gardens of and for 

 sale by E. F. Dwyer & Sons, of Lynn, Mass- 

 achusetts. A two-inch flower, of white "shaded 

 to blue on the edges and tips of petals" (but 

 more probably a lavender or purple than a blue 

 — I have learned to be wary where mention of 

 blue is concerned), with an immense number of 



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