LITTLE GARDENS 



quite by not putting out a single flower till 

 fall. 



With the flowers named In this list we can 

 go a-garden-keeping. Not that the list is com- 

 plete. One would require to take something like 

 700 pages out of Gray's Botany to make it so. 

 Brief mention must still be made of the sun- 

 flower, that flaunts its banner of black and gold 

 above the other color-bearers, and holds its sta- 

 tion in any dry and sandy place; of the delightful 

 marigold — I like even the bitter smell of it — 

 unfolding its gold-yellow, lemon-yellow, orange 

 and brown-red in almost rash luxuriance: one of 

 the easiest and surest of plants, and to be sown 

 at the end of April in ordinary soil; the calen- 

 dula, or pot marigold, with a more limited range 

 of color but more refined quality — a tremendous 

 lot of it you may count upon. In all varieties; the 

 coreopsis, with its fringed petals of red and yel- 

 low, and its lank and Infirm carriage when it is 

 not artificially supported; the calceolaria, with 

 its queer floral pouches dappled with red and 

 yellow — a greenhouse product, not to be set Into 

 the yard till summer; the heady and luxuriant 

 sedums, that like sand, rocks and coolness; and 

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