In one garden (incredibly odorous with beds of " cherry
pie " (whose purple flowers blend very peaceably with mixed snapdragon) a long path has two sorts of weeping standards that are now bright with blossom. Both are common enough species, but one does not often enough see them grown in this form. One is a honeysuckle, which has blossomed con- tinuously for some four months ; the other, a ceanothus (Gloire de Versailles) which has just reached its highest point of perfection. Its very vigorous young shoots, rather diflicult to manage when the bush is grown, as usual perhaps, against a wall, have nothing but virtues when allowed to grow outwards and downwards at their sweet will from a single trunk. Another yet commoner plant of a very different sort has blossoms of abnormal size. It is cultivated by all entomologists for the sake of the moths and butterflies that it attracts ; but the colour of the flowers is offensive to many eyes and it does not harmonize readily with any companions. This objection almost vanishes if the darker and lighter varieties are grown together ; and the lure to insects is perhaps yet more potent. So let no colour purist banish the poor sedum speelabile till this mixture is tried.
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