GARDEN ACCESSORIES 



a stout wire so bent as to hold the somewhat 

 shield-shaped wooden name-piece which swings 

 from it. The label has these advantages over the 

 average slender wooden ones which are thrust 

 into the ground, that it is far enough above the 

 earth to be kept clean, that one does not have 

 to bend so low to read it, and that it is really 

 more readily seen than the accustomed type. At 

 a recent convention of florists' societies, accom- 

 panied by a show of flowers growing, the labels 

 used were very favorably mentioned. Painted 

 grass-green, they were lettered in white, and, while 

 names were particularly clear, the labels them- 

 selves were exceedingly unobtrusive. Not that 

 the flower enthusiast ever objects to the presence 

 of labels; no, it is too often their absence which 

 he has to deplore. Half the pleasure in a fine 

 garden lies in an acquaintance with the correct 

 names of its plant inhabitants. To be sure, these 

 labels, as Mr. Bowles somewhere plaintively re- 

 marks, at times become tombstones. Even then, 

 how much better to have loved, learned the name, 

 and lost than never to have loved at all. 



Two sets of the widely used Munstead baskets, 

 whose picture is shown herewith, have hardly suf- 

 ficed me during the last twenty years, and these 



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