House and Garden 
A. ccerulea and A. glandulosa, dwarf and early 
dowering. It lasts for several years, and bears 
numerous dowers of a lovely shade of blue and 
white, holding them well up to view. 
Among the best of the older forms are A. Si- 
birica, lilac blue and yellow, an early bloomer; 
A. Olympica, blue and white, from Mt. Olympus; 
Munsted white, a robust form of A . vulgaris; A. 
Formosa, red and A. chrysantha, a yellow, the latest 
to bloom. 
A batch of seedlings from seed offered as “ long- 
spurred hybrids” will produce a varied combination 
of colors running from lavender into blue, associated 
with yellow and red. Many beautiful forms may 
be thus obtained. Sometimes stray seedlings spring 
up amid the shrubs in the wild part of my grounds 
and seem more at home and more natural than in 
any other situation. When the colors are good, 
I encourage the formation of a group by shaking the 
ripened seed around the parent plant. They may 
be utilized by being set in among newly planted 
shrubs, that, if planted properly in order to allow for 
future development, naturally have open spaces 
between them, casting some shade, or in receding 
bays in large shrub plant ngs, and in the rockery 
where they are at home. For cut flowers they are 
indispensable, being good keepers and admitting of 
open and airy arrangements. 
LONG-SPURRED HYBRID COLUMBINES 
