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tain strict ideal forbids such a use of either 

 verbenas or pansies; yet the effect seems here 

 entirely pleasing and in good taste. 



A wonderful color contrast is available now in 

 the cut blooms of the brilliantly blue Salvia patens 

 grouped with the equally brilliantly orange flowers 

 of the calendula or pot-marigold. Both are bloom- 

 ing more abundantly than in the warmer days, and 

 it also seems as if the nearby petunias, dianthus 

 and snapdragons had received some especial 

 encouragement from the weather or is it from 

 the heavy mulch of well-rotted manure that covers 

 the ground about them, and through which soaks 

 the water plentifully applied in consequence of 

 rainless weeks ? 



Dahlias are perplexing in their behavior at 

 Breeze Hill. At first it seemed as if this must be 

 their long-lost home, so vigorously did they grow, 

 and so abundantly did they flower; but for several 

 years they have been slow to start, and reluctant 

 to bloom. This year the progress was not satis- 

 factory until early in this October, when an 

 awakening seemed to happen, so that now we have 

 superb flowers, and plenty of them. Of course they 

 will be at their best about the time of the first frost, 

 which will nip them more easily than it will any- 

 thing else ! Even the nearby and really gorgeous 



