Valeriana Rubra. — A very pretty bright rose colored valerian. 
Blooms in June and July in flat panicles of sweet-scented flowers. 
Height about 1 2 inches. Good for edging. 
Hydrangea Arborescens Crandiflora and Grandiflora Cineraria 
Sterilis. — A most beautiful form of Hydrangea, suitable for the herb- 
aceous border. Huge panicles of large white flowers and good foliage. 
By using the two varieties the season of bloom may be lengthened, as 
the second named is a late variety. 
Delphinium Moerheimi. — A very lovely white variety of the 
Belladonna type. The flowers are large and very white and the bloom- 
ing season long. 
Dianthus Deltoides. — A very gay dianthus with tiny single bright 
pink flowers blooming through June and most of July. An excellent 
edging plant, whose grayish green foliage lasts through the summer. 
Nepeta Mussini. — Spikes of pale violet flowers and light blue- 
green feathery foliage. Height, 1 to 2 feet. Blossoms from the middle 
of May throughout the season. A useful edging and border plant 
Needs sun. 
Use more of the misty white and grayish blue flowers in your 
garden next year. All the gay bright flowers are more charming if 
they grow among ' Gypsophila Paniculata, either single or double, or 
have near them a mass of Eryngium Amysthinum or Echinops Ritro. 
Give more thought, too, to the plants with foliage that keeps green 
and fresh through the summer. Peonies, iris, columbines, funkia, sedum, 
many spireas, Japanese Anemones, dicentra formosa, valerian officien- 
alis and hardy pinks make a delightful garden, whether in bloom or not. 
IRose Silver flDoon 
Superlatives seem hardly superlative enough, in my estimation, to 
describe the new climbing rose, SILVER Moon. It is the beautiful 
child of Rosa Cherokee and Rosa Wichuriana, and inherits the best 
qualities of both parents. The flower is exquisite; in bud a deep cream, 
unfolding into a pure white, semi-double perfect flower, four to five 
inches in diameter, filled with yellow stamens. 
The foliage possesses a full list of desirable qualities. The leaves 
are as large as those of any of the Hybrid Tea Roses and are of a very 
dark shade of green, glossy and entirely immune from mildew. 
I fear there may be doubting Thomases if I add two more virtues 
to the account of this rose, but it does grow ten to twelve feet in a 
season, is very vigorous and very hardy. 
It is, in my humble estimation, the finest climbing rose yet pro- 
duced. 
Lawson Melish, 
Garden Club of Cincinnati. 
