Blue is a colour after which most gardeners thirst. Some
have a mania for the blue border, and how much time and labour have been spent vainly, and indeed foolishly, on the creation of a blue sweet pea and a blue rose passes com- putation. One grower handed me what he called a blue rose—it will probably appear next year—and it seemed to me one of the least lovely products I had ever seen. And, after all, there are blues and to spare, if we seek them, some very common and easy to grow. In the now famous garden of the artist proprietor of the Spread Eagle ' at Thame (who has written a whole book on colour) nothing at the moment is more lovely among the five hundred and more sorts of flower collected in that small space than a certain mixture of those common plants, the aubretia and forget- me-not. If you want the introduction of blue into common plants, usually associated with the other two primary colours, there is the lovely wine-coloured wallflower " invented," I think, by the firm of Suttons.
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