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grow up together as they will. The blue corn- 

 flower should have a piece of ground to itself, and 

 so of course should the carnations. The white 

 pinks will already have perfumed the herbaceous 

 border with their aromatic scent, and the sweet- 

 william and antirrhinum will also have claimed 

 a place. The convolvulus major should have a 

 chance of climbing upon a trellis, and the large 

 nasturtium of trailing over a bank ; and where the 

 Tropceolum speciosum, which is one of the great 

 ornaments of the gardens at Minto and elsewhere 

 in Scotland, can be made to flourish in our 

 English garden, it will be found as beautiful as 

 either. 



Above all, no garden should be without its 

 hedge of sweet peas. If the pods are diligently 

 pulled off, new flowers will be as constantly thrown 

 out, and the " purfled scarf " of blossoms will 

 remain in beauty till the first killing frost. It is 

 easy to get a dozen different shades of colour, and 

 nothing can look gayer, or give a more delicious 

 scent. Keats than whom no poet ever described 

 flowers more accurately speaks of the sweet pea's 



