THE PRACTICAL FLOWER GARDEN 



getting that we may ourselves have changed. 

 May we not reproach ourselves equally when 

 ceasing to care for plants which once we 

 prized? Three flowers dear to me ten years 

 ago I now entirely dislike; the crimson ram- 

 bler rose, rudbeckia and Hydrangea grandi- 

 flora. The rudbeckia has been cast out of 

 the garden. Nearly all of the crimson ram- 

 bler roses have been taken up, leaving only 

 a few arches and a short trellis of them, and 

 the Pink Dorothy Perkins has been substi- 

 tuted; but a long hedge of hydrangeas still 

 remain, although I now exclude them from my 

 vision, and regard them as if they did not exist. 

 These brave plants are so hardy and free- 

 blooming that they have found a place from 

 one end of the country to the other, and are 

 grown every where, yet, because of their very 

 merits which made them so universally 

 grown, they have become distasteful to many. 



A beautiful plantation for August and Sep- 

 tember is of pink and white summer-flower- 



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