. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. rke from the Rocky Mountains did not yield a single blueform, I think wo shall not be far wrong in recognising Thompsonsplant as a blue variety of A. leptocerag. When I say that the mouth ofthe wide-expanded corolla is nearly 3 in. in diameter, and the slender spurs aro above 2 in. long, some idea maybe formed of the beauty of this plant; the sepals, petals, andspurs are of an ocbruleucouB colour—that is, a mixture of yellow andwhite, with a decided predominance of the white. Burke describedi
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. rke from the Rocky Mountains did not yield a single blueform, I think wo shall not be far wrong in recognising Thompsonsplant as a blue variety of A. leptocerag. When I say that the mouth ofthe wide-expanded corolla is nearly 3 in. in diameter, and the slender spurs aro above 2 in. long, some idea maybe formed of the beauty of this plant; the sepals, petals, andspurs are of an ocbruleucouB colour—that is, a mixture of yellow andwhite, with a decided predominance of the white. Burke describedit in a letter as tho plant which excited his admiration, most of allthose that ho obtained in his excursion on the Rooky Mountains,which, by tho way, yielded many gems ; and truly, were its size ofbloom and elegance supplemented by a little more vigoui of consti-tution, it would have few rivals in either the herbaceous border or therockery; A. macrantha, of Hooker and Aruott, is a synonym. Supplemnnt to The Garden, Office 37. Southampton Street. Covent GaHon. London, THE ALPINE COLUMBINF, (.\ Q U I L E G I A A L P I N A.) Apeil ?22, 1876.] THE GAEDBN. Blue Rocky Mountain Columbine (A. loptooeaa ccernlea).—This has flowers suffusod with a delicate blue tint. My own is that they are also smaller in size than the type ; but, likeseveral wo have already alluded to, it is rarely met with in vigorousgrowth, under which conditions it might possibly require somemoditicatiou in this respect. Canadian Columbine (A. canadensis).—This was once theonly New World Columbine, having been introduced from Virginiaby the younger Tradescant. It may be taken as the type of and yellow group. The flowers are of much smallersize than any of those just described ; this, however, is amply for by the brilliancy of the scarlet colour of the sepals and theerect somewhat capitate spurs, and the bright yellow of the true A. canadensis is a sle
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