OUR MOUNTAIN GARDEN 



in some other instances, I was obliged to get 

 a " starter " from the florist. But my order 

 was as small as possible. Three double 

 tiger-lilies, one Turk's-cap, and six cardinal 

 plants was its extent, a modest quota 

 for a bed fifty feet long! The friendly 

 garden of a neighbour, which had so often 

 yielded its seeds and cuttings to my needs, 

 now offered me various kinds of ripened 

 lily seed pods, and a handful of the tiny 

 bulblets which grow at the leaf axils of 

 tiger-lilies. All these were duly planted 

 at one end of the big empty bed, and then 

 I waited to see what would happen next, 

 for I was by no means sure that any of 

 them would grow in the shady nook where 

 I wanted to have them, still less that they 

 would survive the bitter mountain winter, 

 or the frosts of the late spring. It was 

 therefore with an anxious heart that I 

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