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high is the *Vhite snakeroot," to give the absurd 

 common name to Eupatorium ageratoides. The 

 latter proper name is descriptive, for it is an 

 ageratum-Hke "boneset" of most pleasing char- 

 acter, and here remains in bloom for all of three 

 weeks in the full sun. I brought the plants from 

 the wild, and Mr. Manning was afraid they would 

 not endure the soil and the sunshine. They have 

 ''rejoiced and been glad" for both. 



Along the axis or living-room border — did I 

 mention that Mr. Manning had me center the 

 garden on the house? — there is now blooming a 

 lowly blue beauty, Plumbago Larpentoe as it used to 

 be called, Ceratostigma plumhaginoides as it is now 

 abusively designated in Bailey's Standard Cyclo- 

 pedia, and leadwort as sometimes known. Poor 

 little creeping bit of blue elegance — how can it 

 get loved under such a bunch of riotous Latin 

 profanity! I can make it a go at plumbago, and 

 it reproduces now in this shady place the hue of 

 the scilla of spring. Near it grows, and tends to 

 overgrow everything, the pink-flowered Sedum 

 spedabile, which is handsome and happy here 

 where the sun visits scantily. 



The splendid delphiniums keep right on during 

 the month in their blue prominence, and my pet 

 weedy tobacco annual, the nicotiana, is as sweet 



