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imperials. My failure this spring has only 
made me more determined to try to have 
them. I have never seen them, but they 
have pleased so many generations of gar- 
deners that they must be worth a place in 
my small garden, and interesting they are 
sure to be. Mrs. Milne-Holm in her book, 
Stray Leaves from a Border Garden, speaks 
often of seeing them in old Scottish and 
English gardens, and always takes pleasure 
in them. In a Devonshire garden she saw 
the yellow variety growing ‘‘in the angle of 
a buttressed garden wall, sheltered by over- 
hanging thatch, looking to the South, and 
with most lovely spires of bloom.’ In one 
Scotch garden it was ‘‘trained up against 
the house under the windows.” I have 
heard of crown imperials growing in old gar- 
dens about here in the past, but know of 
none now. I have put out the three va- 
rieties, the red, the sulphur yellow, and 
“crown upon crown,” and hope next spring 
will not bring me another disappointment. 
I am alsotrying the old-fashioned checkered 
