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every shade of pink and red to deep crimson. 
Some are pure white, and others white 
marked with crimson or purple eyes. I 
pick them by armfuls, with stems two feet 
long. They seed themselves and supply any 
vacant place where they may be wanted in 
the garden, and I divide them in the fall. 
By degrees, I added other flowers to this 
bed. MHollyhocks now range tall and stately 
against the wall, and there are tall plants of 
perennial phlox between them and the sweet- 
williams. This arrangement is broken at 
intervals by Anthony Waterer spireas (which 
by the way I think are very much overrated), 
spirea palmata, a clump of Japanese anemones 
and candidum lilies. A white fraxinella is 
at one end, and halfway down, the silvery 
foliage of a bush of ‘‘Old Man” makes a soft 
background for the flower tints before it. 
Almost all of these additions were raised 
from tiny plants sold by a neighbouring 
florist in the summer for very low prices. 
This nurseryman sends out lists of shrubs 
and plants every season, and if one has the 
