Daisy Mrs. C. L. Bell; Foxgloves (grant yellow) ; Erigeron Speciosus; 
Geum, Mrs. Bradshaw; Linum Sibericum; Delphinium Belladonna 
seedlings and best English Hybrids; Aquilegia (long spurred, pure 
white); Verbascum, Miss Willmott and Phoeniceum; Salvia Sclarea;. 
and the precious biennial Canterbury Bells in pink and mauve. 
Seven It would be most interesting to hear from the members as to 
Best which they consider the seven most useful and beautiful hardy plants. 
Perennials My list would begin with Iris Pallida Dalmatica, Belladonna seedling 
Delphiniimi and Phlox Antonin Mercier. 
Thalictrum There seems to be a mix-up in the Thalictrum family — many of 
the fine kinds are no longer listed, and flavum and glancum seem to 
be hopelessly mixed. The new Dipterocarpum is still enough of a 
stranger to have great respect paid it. 
Oenothera Another precious plant that is hard to find in the catalogues is 
Oenothera Lamarkianna. It is a tall evening primrose with immense 
pale yellow flowers, which actually pop as they open late in the af ter- 
I noon. It should be planted near the porch so you can notice the 
glorious night moths which visit it. 
Shrubs for As soon as the frost is out of the ground, plant a few new varieties 
Early of shrubs. If you will send one dollar and your address to The Arnold 
Planting Arboretum, you will receive, once a month, their enthraUing little 
folder which tells you exactly what choice things are in bloom at that 
date. It is indispensable for anyone planting a Shrubbery. 
Try a Chinese Christmas Berry Bush, Photinia Villosa (Hicks), 
and a Chinese Dogwood, which blooms in July; some of the Coton- 
easters; and a Syringa Villosa. 
Climbing We are using the climbing roses on pillars and chains and on 
Roses terraces as brick plantings in our gardens. Nothing is more lovely, 
but why confine ourselves to the four or five popular, well known 
ramblers when there are others just as hardy and more unusual? This 
March let's plant the Ghislaine de Feligonde, which Mrs. King 
recommends so highly, yellowish copper; a Dr. Van Fleet; an Albric 
Barbier, creamy sulphur; an Excelsa or Dr. Huey for darkest red; a 
Miss Eelyett, the earliest pink climber, and the fawn colored Garland 
Rose, which Miss Jekyll uses so much. All these can be obtained from 
Bobbink and Atkins. 
A Lost For ten years I have been searching for the little globular pink 
Rose Scotch Rose — a variety of Rosa Spinosissima, which used to grow in 
a corner of my mother's garden and which had run out. Never a 
trace could I find of such a rose on this side of the Atlantic, when lo! 
it suddenly appeared last fall, in a nurseryman's list, under the name 
of "Townsend", just as quaint and fragrant and miniature as ever! 
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