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Upon the second and third classes you must depend 

 for pinks of the taller growth ranging from one to two 

 feet in height and flourishing long-stemmed clusters 

 of deliciously clove-scented flowers. The hardy Mar- 

 garets might be wintered in the pit, if it were worth 

 the while, but they are so easily raised from seed, and 

 so prone literally to bloom themselves to death in the 

 three months between midsummer and hard frost, 

 that I prefer to sow them each year in late March and 

 April and plant them out in May, as soon as their 

 real leaves appear, and pull them up at the general 

 autumnal garden clearance. Upon the highly scented 

 perpetual and picotee pinks or carnations (make 

 your own choice of terms) you must depend for fra- 

 grance between the going of the May pinks and the 

 coming of the Margarets ; not that they of necessity 

 cease blooming when their more easily perfected sis- 

 ters begin ; quite the contrary, for the necessity of lift- 

 ing them in the winter gives them a spring set-back 

 that they do not have in England, where they are the 

 universal hardy pink, alike of the gardens of great 

 estates and the brick-edged cottage border. 



These are the carnations of Mrs. Marchant's garden 

 that filled you with such admiration, and also awoke 

 the spirit of emulation. Lavinia Cortright was correct 



