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or at local florists', you will notice that in eight out of 

 ten the majority of plants are of the darker colours. 



There are white varieties of almost every garden 

 flower that blooms between the last frost of spring 

 and winter ice. The snowdrop of course is white 

 and the tiny little single English violet of brief 

 though unsurpassing fragrance; we have white cro- 

 cuses, white hyacinths, narcissus, lilies-of-the-valley, 

 Iris, white rock phlox, or moss-pink, Madonna and 

 Japan lilies, gladiolus, white campanulas of many 

 species, besides the well-known Canterbury bells, white 

 hollyhocks, larkspurs, sweet Sultan, poppies, phloxes, 

 and white annual as well as hardy chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



Almost all the bedding plants, like the geranium, 

 begonia, ageratum, lobelia, etc., have white species. 

 There are white pinks of all types, white roses, and 

 wherever crimson rambler is seen Madame Plantier 

 should be his bride ; white stocks, hollyhocks, verbenas, 

 zinnias, Japanese anemones, Arabis or rock cress, 

 and white fraxinella; white Lupins, nicotiana, even- 

 ing primroses, pentstemons, portulaca, primulas, 

 vincas, and even a whitish nasturtium, though its 

 flame- coloured partner salvia declines to have her 

 ardour so modified. 



