70 A Little Maryland Garden 
rather pretty flowers of the stiffish, decora- 
tive type. They were not a success judged 
by high standards, for each had a tiny green 
button in the middle. William Agnew, of 
the dazzling red, bloomed so late that I 
had only a few flowers before he was cut down. 
It was sad to see so noble a plant, covered 
with buds in every stage of fulness, destroyed 
inanight. Hehad survived, too, the attacks 
of the borer, or rather I might say had 
triumphantly withstood them. For his vital- 
ity had ailowed me to slash his stems to kill 
the insect preying on his vitals, and bind 
them up with stiff paper, without even wither- 
ing. Blanche Keith, for some unknown rea- 
son, never appeared. Of them all I had 
but one true cactus dahlia, Strahlein Krone. 
Now this year I am growing Burbank’s 
cactus dahlias from seed. They have come 
up very healthy looking little plants. I shall 
set out again the tubers of Mrs. Peart, 
Strahlein Krone, and Wm. Agnew, now much 
larger than when they were first planted. 
Very pretty now are the grape hyacinths, 
