Bulletin Correspondence 
Dear Mrs. Brewster: — I now send the fourth article for the Gar- 
den Club of America and a diagram, and hope it may be as you like. 
I am very grateful to you for so kindly sending the copies of the 
Bulletins containing the former articles. I should like to tell you 
how well got up I think the Bulletin is, and how full of useful, helpful 
matter. Also the decision to avoid advertisements gives the whole 
thing a higher and better tone. This also enables correspondents, when 
they find reason to praise the work or produce of any firm, to do so 
without hesitation — a thing we cannot do in our advertisement-loaded 
journals. 
I am much interested by your note at the end of my January 
article, but there is one which needs further explanation, and I am 
sorry that I did not make it clear. The Purple Sage of my spring 
garden is not Salvia Solaria, but- the common sage of the herb garden 
S. officinalis, the same plant whose leaves we use for flavouring 
sausages and stuffing for goose, only with purplish leaves. I am a 
little doubtful whether it would come true from seed, even if seed 
could be obtained, but I must leave some for seed this year and try 
it. In a general way it is not encouraged to flower as it is grown for 
the colour of the leaves. 
Yours very sincerely, 
(Signed) Gertrude Jekyll. 
The member who forwards this letter asks for comment and 
enUghtenment. Certainly we are all victims of this "superstition." 
My dear Madam: — ^The superstition about August planting of 
Lilium Candidum about which you write in your recent letter is very 
prevalent, and held by many otherwise expert gardeners. In the 
face of this superstition, it is our practice to plant every year from 
fifteen to twenty thousand of these bulbs on November ist. These 
bulbs are grown for the wholesale cut flower market. With us this 
November planting of Lilium Candidum is a cold-blooded business 
proposition. We do it to make money, and the fact that we con- 
tinue to plant in November is, we think, sufficient expression of our 
opinion on this subject. 
Very truly yours, 
Rhea F. Elliot, Elliott Nursery. 
Dear Madam: — I have read your Bulletin with such pleasure, 
as evidencing the real interest now being taken in all that appertains 
to horticulture in America. May I point out that the Purple Sage 
56 
