A Neglected Blue
All garden flowers have perforce been bred from wild flowers ; and often the, improvement under expert selection and cultivation has been, very quick. The 'world has , been raked out for the sake of English gardens. Yet it is positive that some of our own wild plants have been unwisely neglected. Nothing was more beautiful this August on the walls of South Wales and many other places than the sbeep's-bit and the devil's-bit scabious.; and both boast a variety, of dark blue that is perhaps the rarest of. all desirable colours in the border. Might not the flowers be brought to a greater size and led into some part of the reputation that is being enjoyed by the large blue-mauve Caucasian scabious ?., The , two are not of the same family but share the rare tint of blue, which makes the Ceratostigma one of the most valuable of all autumn flowering shrubs-4°r gardena.s as Well as rare moths and butterflies.
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