UR appreciation, our eagerness for all the newer and newest 

 garden treasures must be a spur to new efforts, an incentive 

 to the hybridizers, for they are producing transcendently 

 lovely hybrids of countless treasures. Just when we have accepted 

 with thankful hearts sweet little Chinensis a dwarf ever-blooming 

 border Delphinium in both a sky blue and pearly white, they give 

 us another and even more desirable dwarf Delphinium. This 

 newest type is so like a Cineraria, even to the point of being with- 

 out spurs and almost the fac-simile of that rare blue Cineraria we 

 have coveted for an out-of-doors blue. The name of this new 

 Delphinium is Cineraria Caeruleum. It is a continuous bloomer 

 providing the faded flower sprays are kept cut, and it is fed, as 

 we do the other members of the Delphinium family, but our 

 Delphinium novelties do not end with Cineraria. No indeed. There 

 are a dozen or more to delight you; I am going to describe only 

 two or three now. Progression Delphinium is unique, being of a 

 golden white, a shade rather difficult to describe ; perhaps if I said 

 a golden luster pervaded its central petals you would understand 

 how unusual Progression is. Lorenzo de Medici, is novel too, be- 

 cause it is pink suffused with pale gray blue extremely interesting, 

 and its florets are double. Porcelain Sceptre is another wonderful 

 novelty, double as is Lorenzo de Medici and just the blue of 

 Wedgewood. These varieties have been propagated here, they are 

 hardy and available. 



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