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have gone out of fashion, — even the great 

 double many coloured and many-named pop- 

 pies ; and I doubt if one of the happy posses- 

 sors of glass and gardeners Avould have the 

 moral courage to admit a poppy upon his 

 grounds, much as he ma}^ enjoy meeting the 

 family at the house of a mutual friend. But 

 our Fairyland has a place for everything we 

 want ! 



Therefore have as many pinks as you can 

 find room for; from the old, old, pink-faced, 

 sweet-breathed, double, fringed beauties, 

 that bed themselves in a mat of blue-green 

 foliage, and make up for blooming but once 

 a year, by being the fairest things there are 

 when they bloom. From these, through 

 all the varieties you can, up to the stately 

 *' Heddewigs '' and '* diadems." By the way 

 it is simple folly to call a pink anything but 

 a pink. They're no more like ' dianthus,' 

 than I am like a cricket. To quote Mr. 

 Weller — ' Wot's the use o' caUin' a young 

 'ooman a ' wen us,' or a ' griffin ?' " 



Get some carnation seed too, that the 



