A Little Maryland Garden 151 
This year they are wonderfully fine, bloom- 
ing profusely with wide flowers; some deeply 
quilled, some only half double, with a circlet 
of golden stamens starring their centres; 
others with their stamens heavily clubbed 
and standing out from the heart of the flower. 
They are in shades of cardinal and scarlet, 
sulphur and gold, soft pink and cérise, and 
alas, of the most pronounced magenta. The 
latter, fortunately, are at the end of the gar- 
den, subdued by distance, and are of such 
velvety texture that seen entirely apart from 
the other flowers they are very handsome. 
One thing especially attractive about zinnias 
is that they are beautiful under artificial 
light, and when with the shortening days the 
dinner table is lighted, a bowl of them will 
glow with wonderful richness and brilliancy 
of colour. 
The marshmallow, sown last year and 
watched for with interest, is in bloom. 
Pushing aside the branches of a Forsythia 
that blocked the path with their vigorous 
growth, I came upon its large pink flowers, 
