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at us in kindly greeting. Not to mention the 

 great Sir Watkin, Earrii Conspicuus is one of the 

 very best as a decorative variety of the class, 

 with its broad soft yellow perianth, its crown 

 tipped with scarlet-orange, its fragrant scent, 

 and strong growth. It forms a fine con- 

 trast to the white perianth and lemon cup 

 of the smaller Duchess of Brabant, which is 

 invaluable for cutting. One of Enot's fan- 

 shaped crystal vases filled with a little forest 

 of these sweet and graceful flowers, against a 

 wonderful handmade paper of strange colours 

 in a tiny sitting-room, made a charming picture 

 last Spring. 



One exception, and one only, which I make 

 to my dislike of coloured glass for flowers, 

 was a gift to me for my dinner-table when 

 I " hung the crane " in my present home. 

 The set of sturdy little Corinthian glass jars, 

 of strange iridescent green, made in imitation 

 of the long-buried glass of the ancients which 

 modern excavations have brought to light in 

 Greece and Egypt, are, I confess, a constant 

 pleasure to me. All the Summer through they 



