gan to flower. These were all hardy plants and 

 bulbs. How exquisite it was, I know you will 

 realize. 



I saw a great border of the annual Larkspurs, 

 tall, medium and dwarf, the latter in advance of 

 the former, of course. The background was a high 

 cement wall and it was draped and showering 

 with white Clematis, early, mid-summer, and late 

 flowering, thus assuring flowers on the wall early 

 and late. The early variety was the Montana 

 GrandiHora; the mid-summer variety the Mon- 

 tana Wilsoni, the late Paniculata. We cut lark- 

 spur here in mid-October, enormous quantities of 

 it. Why? Because it had not been allowed to go 

 to seed. 



I saw great stone bowls 

 filled with Blue Lilies-of-the 

 Nile. They were growing in 

 large clay pots inside the deep 

 stone bowls, five tubers in 



