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The Garden Miscellany 
As I look out of my window into my little walled garden, as I 
write, the thing that pleases me most is a huge plant of Crambe. It 
is one of the sea-kales which Miss Jekyll speaks of. It grows about 8 
feet high and 5 broad and so you have to give it lots of room, especially 
as it is as big as a rhubarb plant when out of bloom. It is blooming 
against a dark background of grape foliage and near it is a large 
clump of Delphinium Capri, in front of them a border of Nepeia mus- 
smi is at its height and a few of Mrs. Francis King's pale salmon pink 
poppies complete the quartette. It can 't be beat. 
Miss Jekyll says the flower of the Tree Lupin is the softest of the 
light yellows and as usual she is right. I put the seed in last July and 
it made good shrubby plants and lived over without any protection 
and if you could see it now blooming with Campanula macrantha and 
Rockets you would send for a packet of yellow Tree Lupin at once. 
Those pale yellows, so few and so precious, enhance the mauve 
flowers as nothing else does. I consider that Thalicirum flavum, 
Digitalis grandiflora, Tree Lupin, Columbine chrysantha, the palest 
Snapdragons and the two climbing yellowish roses Gardenia and 
Aviateur Bleriot are the loveliest of the pale yellow flowers. Isabelina 
Phlox is" a real buff, not a yellow. 
The white flowered shrub with prominent yellow stamens which 
was so much admired at Mrs. W. G. Nichols' garden in Rye turned out 
to be Xantheceras sorbifolia. It is not very hardy around New York 
but would be excellent in Pennsylvania and Maryland. 
Last fall the Sweet- Wilham plants were so thrifty that I bordered 
two of my beds with them alternating them with clumps of Nepeia 
mussini. I cannot seem to remember that their color is too strong for 
my garden. They overpower everything else and efface my Mrs, 
Perry poppies. I must have strength of character to keep out all 
but the palest ones and have marked one modest flesh pink clump for 
division. These palest ones are beautiful with light blue Delphinium. 
The evergreen-leaved Viburnum which has such woolly under-sur- 
face to the leaves, Viburnum rhytidophyllym, and which we all ad- 
mired so at Rye is rather hard to get. There is a good stock of it 
in large bushes suitable for fall planting to be had at the Rockland 
County Nurseries, Blauveltville, New York. Anna G. Hill. 
Plant Material 
Perhaps in our knowledge of, and our planting plans of Tuhps, Tulip 
we have progressed more in the last ten years than in any other branch Planting 
of the art of garden planting. We were only becoming acquainted 
with the May-flowering Tulips, a dozen years ago, and our acquaint- 
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