A Little Maryland Garden 149 
plenish the earth. Nature’s incessant labour 
of reproduction goes on, with teeming ac- 
tivity, hastening to have her little thou- 
sands strong before the coming of the 
cold. 
In the first season of the little garden 
these additions were very welcome to its 
slender stock. Little vines were set out 
against the wall, hollyhocks were treasured, 
and the increase of the campanulas jealously 
watched. But the time comes when some 
one must be master, industrious Nature, or 
one’s self. To give way even for a season 
would be to destroy the garden plan, and 
allow the most vigorous plants to supplant 
the choice but less aggressive ones. 
Among the most attractive flowers that 
come into bloom in August, are the torch lilies 
(Tritoma Pfitzerit). They are of a beautiful 
colour, not a deep red, but like the clear, 
translucent flame of a candle. This pallid 
flame can be seen from a distance, as if it 
were really a living torch; and the plant 
sends up a succession of flowers, that first 
