SEPTEMBER 165 



they are established, the results will be all that is 

 possible, taking into consideration the fact that they 

 are merely calceolarias. 



The hybrid pentstemons and various other plants 

 may also be treated in this way. In the case of 

 pentstemons the old plants will sometimes withstand 

 the winter, and make large clumps the following 

 year ; but almost as often as not they die, and 

 young plants must be ready to replace them. 

 There are few things better in a garden than 

 these pentstemons ; their colour is excellent, their 

 habit admirable, and their blooming persistent. 

 By removing the seed-pods as they form, a good 

 show can be had from July to November. 



Petunia tries my patience more every year that 

 she grows older. How old is she now ? Certainly 

 not under six-and-twenty, and yet she has not 

 learnt common propriety. To-day she turned up 

 at luncheon-time with a young man on whom I 

 had never before set eyes, she blushing up to her 

 hair and he looking as hideously miserable as any 

 lover could look. Of course I was delighted to 

 see him, for I guessed at once who he was, and 

 as Petunia seemed smitten with dumbness on her 

 entrance, and delayed to introduce her friend, I 

 could do no less than give him a welcome without 

 her aid. I smiled my sweetest smile as a young 

 gentleman of my acquaintance with a cavernous 

 mouth is fond of saying and murmured, with a 

 friendly hand outstretched 



u How do you do? I am sure you must be 

 Mr. Mumby!" 



Petunia's colour had been vivid enough before, 



