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tiniest white blossoms on slender graceful stalks, 

 and one of the loveliest of flowers. 



Do you love Salvia? You can have hardy varie- 

 ties, but not in red only in shades of blue. It is 

 very pretty, however, and some grow much taller 

 than the red annual variety. 



Possibly Poppies have been your favorite flower. 

 I almost hesitate to tell you about the hardy kinds ; 

 they are so wonderful you would scarcely believe me 

 unless you have already seen them. Great flowers 

 as large as a saucer, with petals which look as 

 though they were made of tissue paper. They grow 

 on stiff stems and the leaves are hairy. The plants 

 grow larger each year, and I have had some three 

 year old plants with 45 buds on them. They come 

 in so many shades : orange, scarlet, crimson, mahog- 

 any and many shades of pink, some with spots of a 

 different color at the base of the petals, and some 

 with tufts of black stamens, others with white. 



Campanula or Canterbury bells are one of our 

 loveliest hardy flowers. Each blossom on the tall 

 spike is a perfect bell. Some varieties are called 

 cup and saucer because there is a frill around the 

 base of the bell which makes it look as though it 

 were a cup standing in a saucer. They come in 

 shades of blue, and pink, and white and lavender. 



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