Claret vine, Vitis Coignetiae and the fluffy seed masses of 
Clematis paniculata. The Garden has just passed its seventh 
birthday. 
This year I flowered Helenium Autumnale, Montbretias, Bronze 
Calliopsis, nigra Speciosa (Dreer, 1703) with Sutton's orange Coloring 
and bronze Nemesias. It turned out to be a very beautiful Nemesias 
combination. The Nemesia is not grown enough in America ; 
it needs a sunny situation and good cultivation. Sow seeds in 
the open seed bed in April and transplant in early June. 
The Straw flowers have rather puzzled me so we planted a Everlastings 
collection (Dreer 's) of eight distinct kinds, in rows in the 
vegetable garden. In spite of a damp summer most of them 
thrived. They were Acroclinium single and double ; Ammobium 
Alatum, Gomplirena Globosa, Helechrysum Monstrosum, Statice 
lncana, XerantJtemum and Rhodanthe. Xeranthemum, with its 
terrible name, Avas nevertheless our favorite. It holds its color 
best when dried, and resembles a mauve Cornflower. The pale 
pink Gomplirena is absolutely fetching! To get this pale pink 
variety you have to buy the mixed seeds and then weed out the 
terrible magenta and the sickly white varieties as soon as they 
show their homely faces. The frail Kodanthe is the most 
fascinating of all but its stem is so thread-like that it is hard to 
dry successfully. Helechrysums are the best known and 
probably the most satisfactory in the long run. Do not give 
them too rich soil and they must have full sun. Cacalia, the q vc vli v 
long stemmed Tassel-flower, comes in orange and flame-color and 
is splendid to use with King of the Autumn Dahlias or Calliopis 
nigra and Nemesias. 
At the South Shore Dahlia Show I saw an exquisite new (to n ew 
me) white Cosmos. It was large and had a single row of broad Cosmos 
white ray flowerets surrounding a high center of pale straw- 
colored staminate flowerets. It came from Sutton's and is of 
course a double Cosmos as all compositae are double, but the 
effect is that of a large single flower. It was combined with a pale 
pink Astilie and was one of the most beautiful things I have 
come across this season. 
There is a cream-white Salvia exactly like the common red Cream-white 
Salvia except in color. "We tried it with great success this sum- Salvia 
mer. It is rather a coarse plant but most effective in the hardy 
border in front of the new salmon-pink Cannas which Mrs. 
Crowninshield speaks of in her article. We got the plants from 
Jordon and Brown, Florists, Palisades, Rockland Co., New York. 
That is the only place we have found them but of course there 
may be many others. They have a good stock of plants now for 
greenhouse work, and in May, for out-of-door planting. 
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