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fashion of the cornflower, as it will survive anything but 

 an open, rainy winter, and in the resulting display that 

 lasts the whole month of June it rivals the roses in 

 everything but perfume. 



Godetia is a good flower for half- shady places that it 

 is difficult to fill, and rings the colour change from white 

 through pink to crimson and carmine. Marigolds 

 hold their own for garden colour, but not for gathering 

 or bringing near the nose, and zinnias meet them on the 

 same plane. 



The morning-glory tribe of ipom&a is both useful 

 and decorative for rapid-growing screens, but heed 

 should be taken that the common varieties be not 

 allowed to scatter their seeds at random, or the next 

 season, before you know it, every plant in the garden 

 will be held tight in their insinuating grasp. Especially 

 beautiful are the new Imperial Japanese morning glories 

 that are exquisitely margined and fringed, and of the 

 size and pattern of rare glass wine cups. Petunias, if 

 judiciously used, and of good colour, belong in the second 

 grade of the first rank. They have their uses, but the 

 family has a morbid tendency to run to sad, half- 

 mourning hues, and I have put a black mark against 

 it as far as my own garden is concerned. 



Drummond phlox deserves especial mention, for so 



