ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



foot high, which is so completely covered 

 about the end of May with delicate blue 

 flowers as to be like a bit of sky fallen into 

 the border. I have but one plant, sent me 

 from her garden by a friend whom I have 

 never seen. 



Another lady whom I have not the pleas- 

 ure of knowing, very kindly sent me some 

 seeds a year ago. The name and the de- 

 scription of the flowers which the seeds 

 should produce were lost, but the seeds were 

 sown in May, came up quickly and during 

 the summer, grew to be large strong plants. 

 Set out in beds in the Autumn, they came 

 unharmed through the severe Winter and in 

 the Spring grew to be four feet high with 

 strong, wide-spreading branches. They were 

 rather a disappointment, for the flowers 

 seemed to be only faded, yellow morning 

 glories. But the first evening late in May, 

 when the weather was warm enough to en- 

 tice us into the garden after dinner, there 

 stood the great plants covered with a mass 

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