OLD-FASHIONED FLOWERS 



whatever the silence and meditation of 

 the hour, under the sun and under the 

 moon, in the intoxication of the day and 

 the solemn peace of the night, it sounds 

 its clarion cry and celebrates its vic- 

 tory, monotonous, shrill and scentless. 

 The other is the Double Geranium, not 

 quite so indiscreet, but indefatigable 

 also and extraordinarily courageous. It 

 would appear desirable were it less lav- 

 ished. These two, with the help of a 

 few more cunning strangers and of the 

 plants with coloured leaves that close up 

 those turgid mosaics which at present 

 debase the beautiful lines of most of 

 our lawns, these two have gradually 

 ousted their native sisters from the spots 

 which these had so long brightened with 



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