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larkspur, Tropeolum iuberosmn, Ecremocarpus, 

 globe thistle, acanthus (of these last two, 

 young second blooms), Nigella damascena, 

 scarlet Geum, Linum ftavum, Aster ericor diet, 

 sweet peas, the large St. John's wort, violets, 

 primroses, and pansies. 



I have not mentioned the monthly roses, 

 the hardy jasmine nudiflora, or the laures- 

 tinas, all which are usually in bloom at this 

 season. 



The other flowers I mentioned with the 

 exception of the violets were mostly in beds 

 above the line of the flood ; the violets had 

 been deeply submerged, but they are now 

 blooming in numbers. As to the pansies 

 they seemed to take no more notice of the 

 flood than they do of the snow ; I have some 

 good sorts, and also an enormous quantity of 

 little self-sown degenerate specimens which I 

 have never the heart to eradicate as weeds. 

 They are most persistent little plants and are 

 hardly ever out of bloom. It is these little 

 pansies that I selected for the design on the 



