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Last August cuttings were taken from perfect plants of giant 
fringed white petunias and pale lilac petunias veined with purple, both 
having golden hearts. 
The cuttings wintered successfully in cold frames — some two hun- 
dred of them — and fine healthy plants were set out in the garden the 
19th of May. To-day, June 1st, every plant is in bloom. Both the 
lilac and the white have reverted to the small original white petunia. 
Cuttings of the splendid royal purple variety taken at the same 
time have come true in color and in form. We all understand reversion 
and the difficulty of obtaining true flowers from petunia seed, but why 
the reversion of cuttings from the parent plant? 
Helena Rutherford Ely, 
Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties. 
Can any one tell me why so much of my garden has come out in 
magenta this year? 
It is a color I detest and whenever a plant shows symptoms of this 
hated shade it is taken out and set in a place apart — a leper patch. 
Two flowers only are tolerated in crimson, a soft, velvety Sweet Will- 
iam from Abbots ford, and the fragrant Bee-Balm, so dear to our grand- 
mothers. 
The Sweet Dame Rocket was the first to appear dressed in calico 
— white with stripes of magenta. Then all the pale rose-colored 
peonies were crimson. The hollyhocks, with pinked edges from Kew 
gardens, usually white, yellow and pale pink, were a blatant magenta, 
being nine feet high and stronger and taller than usual, but the most 
surprising is the creamy yellow Gloire de Dijon rose, which was a deep 
pink. What enemy hath done this? 
Helen Hamilton Stockton, 
Garden Club of Princeton. 
Some Xittle TUseo but H)estrable perennials 
Phlox Arendsi. — A new type of phlox resulting from the crossing 
of Phlox Divaricata Canadensis and Phlox Decussata. The plant is 
of medium height and the flower charming shades of lavender with a 
darker eye. It begins to bloom toward the end of May and flowers 
continuously for about eight weeks, thus bridging a gap when border 
flowers are few. 
Thalictrum Aquilegiafolia. — A tall growing rue with most orna- 
mental foliage which keeps its color and freshness all through the sump 
mer. The beautiful, tassel-like blossom is mauve or white and appears 
in great panicles in early June. 
Thalictrum Dipterocarpum. — Another most beautiful rue with 
sprays of rosy lilac blossoms with prominent yellow anthers in July. 
Very charming and desirable. 
