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single. Coronarium and Carinatum last on 

 till after quite sharp frosts ; while the great 

 single sulphur-coloured flowers of Morning 

 Star rival the finest yellow Paris Daisies. 



The beauty and value of annuals is specially 

 borne in on my mind, when a missive from 

 my friend Mr. Leonard Sutton, warns me 

 that they are in their July glory at Reading 

 spread in those sheets of colour that every 

 traveller by the Great Western Railway must 

 know. And after an afternoon spent among 

 them I come home dreaming of great plans 

 too often never carried out for the next 

 year. Some, however, do come to fruition. 



All annual Larkspurs are valuable. But 

 there is one whose praises I never tire of 

 singing 1 Sutton's Rosy-Scarlet Stock-flowered 

 Larkspur. For it is that warm shade of pink 

 with yellow for its basis which is described 

 as salmon or flame a colour that gives me 

 most peculiar and exquisite delight whether 

 I find it in textile, in flower, or in sunset 

 sky. Therefore I greatly rejoice when I see 

 1 See " The Autumn Garden," p. 230. 



