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rose- pink flowers; Crimson Belle, dark red. Among 

 the double, Fireball, an intense scarlet; the Diadem 

 pink, Salmon Queen, and the lovely Oriental Beauty 

 with diversely marked petals of a crepy texture. 



The double varieties of course are more solid and 

 lasting, if they do not insist upon swelling so mightily 

 that they burst the calyx and so have a dishevelled 

 and one-sided look ; but for intrinsic beauty of colour 

 and marking the single Chinese and Japanese pinks, 

 particularly the latter, reign supreme. They have a 

 quality of holding one akin to that of the human eye 

 and possess much of the power of individual expression 

 that belongs to pansies and single violets. 



By careful management and close clipping of with- 

 ered flowers, a bed of these pinks may be had in bloom 

 from June until December, the first flowers coming 

 from the autumn-sown plants, which may be replaced 

 in August by those sown in the seed bed in late May, 

 which by this time will be well budded. 



"August is a kittle time for transplanting border 

 things," I hear you say. To be sure ; but with your 

 water-barrel, the long-necked water-pots, and a judi- 

 cious use of inverted flower-pots between ten A.M. 

 and four P.M., there is no such word as fail in this as 

 in many other cases. 



