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of colour extends along the border in front of the 

 vinery, and fills the garden with its scent ; and not 

 far off is a wire screen, which I cover with the large 

 Convolvulus, and through the summer months the 

 " Morning Glories," as the blossoms were once 

 called, display all their short-lived beauty. 



On either side of the grass-walk, which runs 

 down the garden, at a right angle to the vineries, 

 I am making rustic trellises of logs of wood, 

 round which I shall plant Vegetable Marrows 

 and Gourds, and at intervals clumps of the great 

 Sunflower. 1 In another corner I am sowing a bed 

 of the Bluet, or Corn-flower, the favourite flower 

 of the Emperor of Germany. For some reason 

 the Violets of Napoleon, of which I once had 

 abundance, have not been so successful with me 

 during the last few years, will the Corn-flower 

 do better ? What a glorious blue it is ! and how 

 much we have neglected it ! because, I suppose, it 

 is too common, and grows wild amid the ripening 

 Corn and the scarlet Poppy. 



Turning to the fruit-garden, my great discovery 

 has been that I must have bees not at all for 

 the honey, but for the proper setting of the fruit. 

 A large May Duke Cherry is always covered with 



1 See Note IV. on the Sunflower of the Classics. 



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