1 80 GARDENING BY M YSELF. 



Iris, with its rich peculiar blossoms ; and 

 Crown [mperial — gay but not sweet ; and 

 the little Anomatheca cruenta, and all the 

 rest of your catalogue ! 



Get everything you can, and especiall}^ 

 all the lilies ; and make sure that you have 

 at least one of the old Lilium candiduni. So 

 old that it is rare ; sweet, elegant, spotless : 

 worth dollars to you, though but fifteen 

 cents to the florist. 



Between the time when your list is finish- 

 ed, and with a sigh of relief that tells how 

 great the perplexity has been you make a 

 fair copy of the order and send it off, chang- 

 ing the possible into the inevitable, — be- 

 tween that time and the delicious minute 

 when the bulbs arrive, each w^rapped in its 

 own soft labelled paper, and the '' inevitable " 

 order is changed back again into a box full 

 of wonderful possibilities — to begin once 

 more — between those two bits of time there 

 is much to do. Of course you will question 

 now and then with yourself, as to whether 

 the box may arrive ^' to-day ;" but, mean- 



