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The orange of Henry Eckford which created 

 such a sensation in 1905, being a completely 

 new break in colour, is so violent that it 

 ought to be planted with care, so that it does 

 not swear with the other Sweet Peas, Black 

 Michael being about the only one able to keep 

 it quiet. But Evelyn Eyatt and Helen Lewis, 

 though intense in colour, are more manage- 

 able as to companions. For lavender and 

 mauve, Lady Grisel Hamilton, Mrs. G. Higgin- 

 son (syn. Gladys Deal), Miss H. C. Philbrick, 

 New Countess, Mrs. Walter Wright, Helen 

 Pierce, and the beautiful new Frank Dolby 

 (1907) are all most valuable. The unsur- 

 passed Dorothy Eckford for white ; Hon. Mrs. 

 Kenyan and Mrs. Collier (1907), primrose; 

 and Dainty, white with pink picotee edge, 

 are my palest quartet ; my darkest being 

 Black Knight, which I prefer to Black Michael, 

 and the new Horace Wright (1907) for deepest 

 violet. A row of Coccinea, the cerise self, 

 unique and absolutely distinct in colour, 

 foliage, and growth, should always stand a 

 little apart, for it is not as tall as the modern 



