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ordinary pansies, and you can propagate by cuttings the one 

 variety you like best. I wish every one who reads this article would 

 try some tufted pansies in a rose bed next spring. Or if you wish 

 enough to edge a walk and cannot afford to buy the plants, get 

 some seed and sow in flats in coldframes. 



These, then, are the great edging plants in England pinks 

 and tufted pansies. For variety they use thrifts, which make neat 

 evergreen sods and bear tidy balls of rosy flowers on long stems; 

 moss pink (Phlox subulata), in refined varieties; rock-cress (Arabis 

 albida); an exquisite harebell known as Campanula pusilla, which 

 I fear we can grow only in rockeries, and saxifrages without 

 number. These last we cannot grow, except possibly the London 

 pride (Saxifraga umbrosa), which seems to me the most valuable 

 of all because of its evergreen rosettes. 



We particularly need white-flowered edging plants that bloom 

 in summer. White, because white is the peacemaker in the gar- 

 den. Summer-blooming, because white flowers make a garden 

 seem cool and restful. If there is any nurseryman or amateur who 

 has a white-flowered variety of the lemon thyme I wish he would 

 send me some plants for experimentation as I think that would 

 make an ideal edging plant for America white flowers, summer 

 bloom, evergreen, and fragrant foliage. 



FRAGRANT EDGINGS 



This brings me to a fascinating subject the use of fragrant 

 herbs for edging paths in a flower garden. A garden can hardly 

 be charming without sweet odours and I fancy that some of the 

 fascination of the old Italian gardens is due to their bay, myrtle, 

 and lemon, which makes them ever fragrant. Flowers are scented 

 only when they bloom, but leaves will give forth their odour when- 



