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in delicious confusion. There is Ladies' 

 Pincushion (Saudades), made in pale coral, 

 passing through velvet shades of red to 

 deep ' murrey/ stuck with silver pins as 

 usual. Lobelia fulgens (the Cardinal's 

 flower), burn between the tufts of white 

 and lilac Sultan's flower (Sweet Sultan). 

 Gaillardia picta Lorenziana mingles with 

 Gailliardia picta flowering in gold and 

 crimson petals, fantastically nicked, set 

 round in little coronets; a bunch or two 

 of lilac Catananche, deep lengths of Marvel 

 of Peru in three bright colours, many 

 coloured China asters, double stocks, 

 lupins, dwarf phloxes, one choice corner 

 filled in with salpiglossis of richly varied 

 colours, brown, purple, and grey. Sword 

 lilies flash scarlet here and there amid 

 all these, and grandest of all are the 

 fine plants of hyacinthus candicans, each 

 plant sending up three or four great stems, 

 blue-green with the bloom of health, and 

 each bearing a ring of bells in ivory-white. 

 A white ' Peach-leaf bell flower,' (campan- 

 ula) in a shadowy place near at hand betrays 

 by contrast the only failure amid the perfect 



