The Blue Flower Border 
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flower and no foliage. I am ever reminded of blue 
mould, of stale damp. I looked with inexpressible 
aversion on a photograph of Cecil Rhodes’ garden 
at Cape Town — -several solid acres set with this blue 
Hydrangea and 
nothing else, 
unbroken by 
tree or shrub, 
and scarce a 
path, growing 
as thick as a 
field sown with 
ensilage corn, 
and then I 
thought what 
would be the 
color of that 
mass ! that crop 
of Hydrangeas! 
Yet I am told 
that Rhodes is 
a flower-lover 
and flower- 
thinker. Now 
this Aquilegia 
was of similar 
tint; it was 
blue, but it was not a pleasing blue, and additional 
plants of pink, lilac, and purple tints had to be 
added before the Aquilegia was really included in 
our list of well-beloveds. 
There are other flowers for the blue border. It 
Salpiglossis. 
