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each night all through the summer, 1 the foxglove, 

 which will sometimes grow eight feet high and 

 bear from two to three hundred flowers upon a 

 single stem, herbaceous phloxes of every variety 

 of red and purple hue, paeonies and irises, and for 

 late autumn the old Michaelmas daisy, are among 

 the most suitable plants for this purpose. 



Passing into the walled garden, we shall pro- 

 bably find the northern side taken up with 

 vineries and plant-houses, with which, however, 

 we have nothing to do, except in so far as they 

 supply us with any tender or half-hardy plants 

 for our garden-beds. In front of these houses 

 will be great borders of stocks and mignonette, 

 scenting the air the mignonette sweetest when 

 the sun is strongest, and the stocks as evening falls. 

 Broad walks and thick hedges of yew, or privet, 

 or the tree-box, divide the flower from the kitchen 

 garden ; and where the walks intersect, there may 

 perhaps be an old-fashioned pond with aquatic 

 plants or a fountain ; and here let me say that the 

 rarer aquatic plants might be much more grown 

 1 See Note IV., on the Evening Primrose. 



