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finer with me than in the blazing heat of last 

 Summer (1906). Looking out of my north 

 windows, the long rows from which I had 

 been cutting ceaselessly since mid-June were 

 a solid mass of colour in late August. And 

 great was the astonishment of a tall youth 

 who brought me a note from the far end of 

 the parish while I was hard at work cutting 

 fifty dozen for market, to find that they 

 out-topped his head by 20 inches a good 

 7 feet 8 inches in all. As many were from 

 my own harvesting of the former year's crop, 

 I may be forgiven a little conceit over them. 

 While I remain faithful to some of my old 

 favourites, Celestial, Oriental, 'Blanche Ferry, 

 Gorgeous, and Salopian, many of the newer 

 sorts stand pre-eminent in size and beauty. 

 And first of all, in abundance, size, and 

 delicate loveliness, I place the pink Gladys 

 Unwin, with its charmingly waved wings and 

 standard. Of this I was particularly proud, 

 as the whole stock came from six plants out 

 of a tiny packet of seeds which my friend 

 Mr. F. A. Roscoe, of the Golden Orchard, 



