leaves. It should be grown for cutting only and is a most useful addi- 
tion to our table decorations. 
Rue, also an herb from the kitchen garden, has curious blue-green 
leaves, lobed and feathered in a most surprising way, its pale yellow 
inconspicuous flowers are charmmg in July in the blue border. Height, 
about one foot. 
The Clematis so admired in Mrs. Lane's garden is the Clematis Perennials 
Montana spoken of so often by Miss Jekyll in her Color in the Flower 
Garden, page 107, et, sec. Study of the wonderful pictures of this 
Clematis all through that book led me to try it here at the sea in 19 13. 
It has grown superbly on the concrete wall, but it blooms early in 
June here instead of July 28th, as on the North Shore. 
The Lychnis, also seen at Mrs. Lane's, which was a sheet of pink, is 
Lychnis flos-cticuli plenissima semperflorens, which translated into 
Yankee is Cuckoo-Flower. Bobbink and Atkins and many other 
nurseries list it. It is very hardy and should be divided every third 
year. In spite of the quarantine against our beloved Bleeding-Hearts, 
Dicentra Spectabilis, some of our nurserymen are still able to supply 
them. The Muller-Sealey Horticultural Co., 145 West 45, N. Y. 
offer extra heavy clumps suitable either for planting out or forcing in 
the greenhouse. 
In the Garden Magazine (English) of July 30th, we noted an article 
on a "Rapid method of increasing Hybrid Delphiniums" which ex- 
plained in detail how to detach the growing side shoots and pot them 
up in July, thus gaining at least a year, and also making sure that you 
have the exact variety. I followed the directions very carefully with 
the result that I now have twenty -four large, healthy plants of Capri, 
(impossible to obtain) from my two old clumps and have not impaired 
the health of the parent plants in the least! 
We have been asked which of the newer Bearded Iris appealed Iris 
particularly to us in the Philadelphia Show (where one of our mem- 
bers, Mrs. Horatio Lloyd, won the Sweep-stakes prize offered by our 
Mrs. Chas. Stout). The artificial lighting made it difficult to judge 
the exact coloring, but after carrying a number of the beautiful things 
out to the sunlight, we can at least vouch for the following and recom- 
mend them unreservedly : 
Isoline, S. Lilac pink, F. Old rose and yellow, Bobbink and Atkins, 
Rutherford, N. Y., $1.00 each. 
Edotiard Michel, S & F. Wine red. Bobbink and Atkins, Ruth- 
erford, N. Y., $1.50 each. 
Archeveque, tones of deep purple, very large, $1.00. 
Monsignor, S, violet, F. purple, fine form, $1.00. 
Kashmire White, (John Scheepers, N. Y.), $2.00. 
Crusader, S. & F. blue, enormous, $1.25. 
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