In the Garden
I must confess that the range of colour in both pentstemons a petunias is new to me ; and a nurseryman mentioned that it was new him in respect of the newer French-bred petunias, which are of an infini variety of combined colours. However, to my eyes, the pentstemon much the more interesting plant, and the colours are both various a gorgeous. They tend doubtless to purples and reds, but run up the who scale, and there is now even a blue variety. How nurserymen differ m description of colour ! I know nothing whatever about the Nash Hi Nurseries at Princes Risborough, but the two ladies who own it din* a charmingly original gift for adjectival description. They advertise cheiranthus of " a soft sad mauve," an androsace with " woolly rosette% ivory flowers," a geranium that is " prostrate magenta," a colour-wor that is almost universally avoided in catalogues, a cotyledon that h "dangling golden flowers like lambs'-tails," a saxifrage that has "sh rather blunt leaves," an ivy that is " curious upstanding of slow growth, a hellebore with " pale green flowers with pink reverse." These a others of " carpeters " or "sub-shrubs " or " rosettes " certainly succ in giving a real idea of what these plants (largely Alpines) really look
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